From 20ed685c660f6c5e5bc2f711dfaa1e8d94015220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?St=C3=A9phane=20Bidoul?= <stephane.bidoul@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:27:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add requested property to BaseDistribution

---
 src/pip/_internal/metadata/base.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/metadata/base.py b/src/pip/_internal/metadata/base.py
index 10a6c489783..465ff791bfb 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/metadata/base.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/metadata/base.py
@@ -311,6 +311,15 @@ def installer(self) -> str:
                 return cleaned_line
         return ""
 
+    @property
+    def requested(self) -> bool:
+        try:
+            self.read_text("REQUESTED")
+        except (OSError, ValueError, NoneMetadataError):
+            return False
+        else:
+            return True
+
     @property
     def editable(self) -> bool:
         return bool(self.editable_project_location)