From 95c3ae32a3e7b15ef76d1b94b84d3c64715e96ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:15:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] :newspaper:

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+Revert "Skip candidate not providing valid metadata", as that caused pip to be overeager about downloading from the package index.