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+Add the properties ``PackageMetadata.authors`` and
+``PackageMetadata.maintainers`` to the ``importlib.metadata`` module. These
+unify and provide minimal parsing for the respective core metadata fields
+("Author", "Author-email"), and ("Maintainer", "Maintainer-email").