[Distutils] Deprecate and Block requires/provides

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 17, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package upload certainly worked, and that is what is going to be broken.

So would you be ok with deprecating and removing to equal "this metadata silently
gets sent to /dev/null" in order to not break uploads for what would have affected
roughly 4% of the total new releases on PyPI in 2013.

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