wheel 0.46+ depends on packaging

[hroncok]

Heads up

The new version of wheel 0.46+ depends on packaging: pypa/wheel#655

As such, upgrading the embedded wheel wheel in virtualenv might be challenging. I see the following options:

• since setuptools 70.1, bdist_wheel is supposedly supported without the wheel dependency -- virtualenv could stop supporting installation of wheel and stop embedding it
• virtualenv could add a wheel of packaging and install it together with wheel
• virtualenv could stop upgrading the embedded wheel wheel, but the old one that might eventually break with future Pythons

[gaborbernat]

This will be resolved by #2868

[hroncok]

Oh. I searched issues but not open PRs.

[gaborbernat]

Done.

[hroncok]

Thank you!