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-Re-use pre-existing ``.dist-info`` dir when creating wheels via the build backend APIs (PEP 517) and the `metadata_directory` argument is passed -- by :user:`pelson`.
+Re-use pre-existing ``.dist-info`` dir when creating wheels via the build backend APIs (PEP 517) and the ``metadata_directory`` argument is passed -- by :user:`pelson`.