In GitLab by@jaraco on Sep 26, 2018, 24:57

I recently stumbled onto another case wherepkg_resources supplies some important metadata, the dependencies for a package.

~ $ pkg_resources.get_distribution('jaraco.functools').requires()[Requirement.parse('more-itertools')]

I believe importlib_metadata should probably provide at least a list of requirements if not also possibly parsing those requirements (although the latter might only work if the third-party 'packaging' library is available).