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meson-python 0.15.0

- Enable compression for wheel files. The may result in several times
  smaller wheels.
- Require Meson 1.2.3 or later on Python 3.12 or later. Meson 1.2.3
  does not require anymore ``distutils``, allowing to remove the
  dependency on ``setuptools`` on Python 3.12 or later.
- Unconditionally require ``patchelf`` on Linux.  The ``patchelf``
  package is added to the build dependencies if a suitable
  ``patchelf`` executable is not find on the ``$PATH``. This avoids
  cases where ``meson setup`` was run twice during the build process
  to determine whether ``patchelf`` is required.
- Allow to configure the ``meson`` executable to use for the build
  process through the ``$MESON`` environment variable or the ``meson``
  key under ``[tool.meson-python]`` in ``pyproject.toml``.
- Fix wheel platform tag generation on FreeBSD.
- Extend support to other UNIX-like systems and make the tests pass on
  FreeBSD.
- Fix package name normalization in package metadata and improve
  package name validation.
- Fix ``RPATH`` handling when the build ``RPATH`` points to
  subdirectories of the build directory.
- Fix support for the Python limited C API when compiling for PyPy.
- Rename the ``builddir`` config-setting to ``build-dir``. For
  backwards compatibility, the ``buildir`` config-setting remains
  supported as an alias.