PEP 517 compliance

[frilox042]

Please update your configuration, so it complies with PEP 517

Yesterday (2025-03-24), setuptools release v78.0.1 removing support for wheel that does not comply with PEP 517
This led people to be unable to install licensing.

          Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future
          versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead.
          (Affected: licensing).

Note that setuptools rollbacked the changes and let packager up to 2026 to fix it.

All packages with deprecated configurations are advised to move before 2026

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/stable/history.html

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To test if your package complies, you can run:

pip wheel --use-pep517 licensing --verbose
# or
docker run -it python:3.12-slim /bin/bash -c "pip wheel --use-pep517 licensing -v"

You might see:

          Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future
          versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead.
          (Affected: licensing).

          By 2026-Mar-03, you need to update your project and remove deprecated calls
          or your builds will no longer be supported.

          See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html for details.

[artemlos]

@frilox042 Thanks for letting us know. We will start working on this and will get back with an update.

Best, Artem

[JulienRobitaille]

Any news on this?

[artemlos]

@JulienRobitaille @frilox042 Thanks for feedback! It should now be fixed, running pip wheel --use-pep517 . --verbose in the local environment does no longer return that error. This will be released in production soon. Thanks again!