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Refer to auditwheel rather than cibuildwheel
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Note in particular that if you have a wheel, you cannot assume that a field
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which is not marked as ``Dynamic`` will have the same value in other wheels, as
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some wheels are not built directly from the sdist, but are modified from
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existing wheels (the ``cibuildwheel`` tool does this, for example). Such
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modifications *could* include changing metadata (even non-dynamic metadata).
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Similarly, if you have a sdist and a wheel which you didn't build from that
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sdist, you cannot assume that the wheel's metadata matches that of the sdist,
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even if the field is not marked as ``Dynamic``.
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existing wheels (the ``auditwheel`` tool does this, for example, and it's
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commonly used when building wheels for PyPI). Such modifications *could*
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include changing metadata (even non-dynamic metadata). Similarly, if you have
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a sdist and a wheel which you didn't build from that sdist, you cannot assume
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that the wheel's metadata matches that of the sdist, even if the field is not
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marked as ``Dynamic``.
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It is advisable, but not required, that tools which modify wheel metadata add
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the modified fields to the generated wheel's ``Dynamic`` field.

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