[Distutils] Merging forks

[Paul Moore]

Something prompted by the setuptools merge, and its impact on pip. Does
Python's packaging metadata need a way of declaring in a package that it is
a merge of (two or more) other packages?

Obviously this is a rare scenario, but it's painful when it occurs (how can
a tool know that setuptools 0.7 is a later version of distribute than
0.6.36?)

Paul
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