[Distutils] PEP440 and fork versioning

[Marcus Smith]

I'm wondering if PEP440 should recommend how to version forks? It's fairly
common to fork dependencies temporarily until the change can be released
upstream.

Ideally, you want to version a fork (and keep the same name) so that it
fulfills the requirement, but be obvious that it's a fork.

Although pip allows overriding requirement consistency,  consistency is
preferred, and needed in cases where a `pkg_resources.require` enforces it
in a console script.

As it is now, the "post-release" scheme works for this, but it's not the
intended use case.

Marcus
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