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authorJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2023-04-21 02:12:48 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-04-21 02:12:48 (GMT)
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Sync with importlib_metadata 6.5 (GH-103584)
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@@ -308,6 +308,10 @@ Python module or `Import Package <https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/glossar
>>> packages_distributions()
{'importlib_metadata': ['importlib-metadata'], 'yaml': ['PyYAML'], 'jaraco': ['jaraco.classes', 'jaraco.functools'], ...}
+Some editable installs, `do not supply top-level names
+<https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/609>`_, and thus this
+function is not reliable with such installs.
+
.. versionadded:: 3.10
.. _distributions: