Stop explicitly listing wheel as a build dependency (#12728)

* Stop explicitly listing wheel as a build dependency setuptools' get_requires_for_build_wheel() hook already injects this dependency when building wheels is requested. See also 64d8938. * Fix typo in news fragment Co-authored-by: Sviatoslav Sydorenko (Святослав Сидоренко) <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Tzu-ping Chung <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Sviatoslav Sydorenko (Святослав Сидоренко) <[email protected]>
pypa · Jul 9, 2024 · 6b35bee · 6b35bee
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diff --git a/news/12728.feature.rst b/news/12728.feature.rst
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+``wheel`` is no longer explicitly listed as a build depepndency of ``pip``.
+``setuptools`` already injects this dependency in the ``get_requires_for_build_wheel()`` hook.
+This makes no difference for users of ``pip``.
+This makes no difference when building wheels of ``pip``.
+This avoids an unnecessary dependency on ``wheel`` when building the source distribution of ``pip``.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Changelog = "https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/"
 
 [build-system]
 # The lower bound is for <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3865>.
-requires = ["setuptools>=67.6.1", "wheel"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=67.6.1"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.setuptools]