On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
[..]
>
> if a "1.2" field is found and no "1.1" field is found:
>    metadata 1.2 is used
> if a "1.1" field is found and no "1.2" field is found:
>    metadata 1.1 is used + a warning is displayed
> if a "1.1" field is found and a "1.2" field is found:
>    a warning is displayed and 1.2 is used, 1.1 fields are ignored
> if no 1.1 field or 1.2 fields are found:
>    metadata 1.2 is used

That would be internal to Distutils btw. tools should consume PKG-INFO
using the DistributionMetadata reader, looking for the various attributes.

"requires", etc. would be kept, most of the time set to "None", then removed
at the next Python version.
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