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fix: better error message for broken Distribution objects (#508) - #546
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… path. Replace the Name-specific handling with an `_identify_dist` decorator applied to both required metadata accessors, and give PathDistribution a `__str__` that emits its metadata path so the error (and diagnose) can rely on rendering the distribution rather than reaching for `_path`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes #508: Better error message when a Distribution object is broken (missing Name metadata).
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