Adopted the bdist_wheel command from "wheel"

Closes #1386.

docs/build_meta.rst

@@ -60,10 +60,8 @@ being used to package your scripts and install from source). To use it with
     build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 ``build_meta`` implements ``setuptools``' build system support.
-The ``setuptools`` package implements the ``build_sdist``
-command and the ``wheel`` package implements the ``build_wheel``
-command; the latter is a dependency of the former
-exposed via :pep:`517` hooks.
+The ``setuptools`` package implements the ``build_sdist`` and
+``build_wheel`` commands.
 
 Use ``setuptools``' :ref:`declarative config <declarative config>` to
 specify the package information in ``setup.cfg``::

docs/userguide/quickstart.rst

@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ library will be used to actually do the packaging.
 
    Historically this documentation has unnecessarily listed ``wheel``
    in the ``requires`` list, and many projects still do that. This is
-   not recommended. The backend automatically adds ``wheel`` dependency
-   when it is required, and listing it explicitly causes it to be
-   unnecessarily required for source distribution builds.
+   not recommended, as the backend no longer requires the ``wheel``
+   package, and listing it explicitly causes it to be unnecessarily
+   required for source distribution builds.
    You should only include ``wheel`` in ``requires`` if you need to explicitly
    access it during build time (e.g. if your project needs a ``setup.py``
    script that imports ``wheel``).

newsfragments/1386.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Adopted the ``bdist_wheel`` command from the ``wheel`` project -- by :user:`agronholm`