Stop telling users to use wheel as build dep

pypa · Dec 23, 2023 · 3769ad7 · 3769ad7
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diff --git a/docs/html/reference/build-system/pyproject-toml.md b/docs/html/reference/build-system/pyproject-toml.md
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__"
 
 If a project has a `build-system` section but no `build-backend`, then:
 
-- It is expected to include `setuptools` and `wheel` as build requirements. An
+- It is expected to include `setuptools` as a build requirement. An
   error is reported if the available version of `setuptools` is not recent
   enough.
 

diff --git a/news/12449.doc.rst b/news/12449.doc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Updated the ``pyproject.toml`` document to stop suggesting
+to depend on ``wheel`` as a build dependency directly.