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 ## Source distribution
 
-Most packages publish their source distributions as gzip tarball (`.tar.gz`) or zip (`.zip`)
-archives. While less common, other formats are also supported when reading and extracting source
-distributions:
+[PEP 625](https://peps.python.org/pep-0625/) specifies that packages must distribute source
+distributions as gzip tarball (`.tar.gz`) archives. Prior to this specification, other archive
+formats, which need to be supported for backward compatibility, were also allowed. uv supports
+reading and extracting archives in the following formats:
 
 - bzip2 tarball (`.tar.bz2`)
 - gzip tarball (`.tar.gz`)