Deprecate bdist_wheel.universal
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I thought this change would affect some of the backport modules I maintain, but I scanned though them and in all cases, I've dropped support for Python 2.7. If I or others need to build a universal wheel, it seems reasonable they could pin to an older version of Setuptools, but it seems decreasingly likely it will be needed.
One case this will affect is building old releases when the builders don't take reproducibility measures like using |
This is a follow-up to pypa#4617 which deprecated the `universal` flag of `bdist_wheel`. It originally offered people to complain in issues. I, however, think that it's useful to mention the non-deprecated alternative that will keep working past deprecation date. This is what this patch implements.
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@abravalheri I think I've found a non-deprecated replacement that would be useful to mention as a part of deprecation messages: #4939. |
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Closes #4613
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