@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ reserve the right of speeding up the deprecation cycle and shortening deprecatio
5050Note that these are exceptional circumstances and that the project will
5151carefully attempt to find alternatives before resorting to unscheduled removals.
5252
53+ .. important ::
54+ In the context of ``setuptools ``, the introduction of :py:mod: `warnings `
55+ (including deprecation warnings) is not considered a breaking change *per se *.
56+ Instead it is considered a backwards compatible *communication action * that
57+ precedes an upcoming breaking change. This is becauset code
58+ containing warnings typically does not fail and can successfully terminate
59+ execution, unless users explicitly opt into transforming those warnings
60+ into errors (e.g., via Python's :external+python:ref: `-W option or
61+ PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable <using-on-warnings>`).
62+
5363
5464What to do when deprecation periods are undefined?
5565--------------------------------------------------
@@ -147,7 +157,7 @@ you can still resort to restricting the version of Setuptools to be installed.
147157This usually includes modifying ``[build-system] requires `` in ``pyproject.toml ``
148158and/or specifying ``pip `` :external+pip:ref: `Constraints Files ` via
149159the ``PIP_CONSTRAINT `` environment variable (or passing |build-constraint-uv |_).
150- Please avoid however to pre-emptively add version constraints if not necessary,
160+ Please avoid however to preemptively add version constraints if not necessary,
151161(you can read more about this in https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/).
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153163.. |build-constraint-uv | replace :: ``--build-constraint `` to ``uv ``
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