From 5dd51a8dddd28b2c06b7088f208868497249c140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "patchback[bot]" <45432694+patchback[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 17:19:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Set the minimum required `setuptools` to v46.4.0 (#6226)

Co-authored-by: Sviatoslav Sydorenko <webknjaz@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit f8b07dd62facc4c004b349d6e16b790f4b7205c2)

Co-authored-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
---
 CHANGES/6205.misc | 2 ++
 pyproject.toml    | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CHANGES/6205.misc

diff --git a/CHANGES/6205.misc b/CHANGES/6205.misc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..15b60ce0930
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/6205.misc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Declared the minimum required version of ``setuptools`` v46.4.0
+in the :pep:`517` configuration file -- :user:`jameshilliard`.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index acccf615c8a..262623fecd5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools >= 46.4.0",
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
 [tool.towncrier]
 package = "aiohttp"
 filename = "CHANGES.rst"