Switch from pkginfo to packaging for parsing distribution metadata #1180
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The packaging package is maintained by the PyPA and it is the de-facto reference implementation for the packaging standards. Using packaging for parsing metadata guarantees support for the latest metadata versions.
warehouse, the Python package index implementation used by PyPI, also uses packaging for parsing metadata. This guarantees that metadata parsing is the same on the client and server side, for the most prominent index.