Respect PEP 621 dynamic fields when merging Cargo.toml metadata

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Summary

Fixes #2544 by ensuring maturin only includes metadata fields from Cargo.toml when they are explicitly declared as dynamic in pyproject.toml, in compliance with PEP 621.

Problem

Previously, maturin would unconditionally include metadata fields like description, authors, keywords, and urls from Cargo.toml into wheel metadata, even when these fields were not declared in the dynamic list in pyproject.toml. This violates PEP 621, which states:

Build backends MUST NOT add metadata fields that are not specified in either the [project] table or listed in dynamic.

Example

Before this fix:

# Cargo.toml
[package]
name = "my-package"
description = "Description from Cargo.toml"
authors = ["Author <author@example.com>"]
keywords = ["rust", "python"]

# pyproject.toml  
[project]
name = "my-package"
version = "0.1.0"
# No dynamic field specified - should default to empty list

The wheel metadata would incorrectly include:

• Summary: Description from Cargo.toml
• Author: Author <author@example.com>
• Keywords: rust,python

After this fix:
The wheel metadata only includes fields from pyproject.toml and respects the dynamic list:

• Only Name: my-package and Version: 0.1.0 are included
• Cargo.toml fields are ignored unless declared as dynamic

To include Cargo.toml fields, they must be explicitly declared:

[project]
name = "my-package"  
version = "0.1.0"
dynamic = ["description", "authors", "keywords", "urls"]

Changes

1. Core fix: Modified Metadata24::merge_pyproject_toml() to clear metadata fields from Cargo.toml that are not declared in the dynamic list
2. Backward compatibility: Updated test pyproject.toml files to declare necessary fields as dynamic to maintain existing test behavior
3. Comprehensive testing: Added test cases covering both scenarios (with and without dynamic fields)

Testing

• ✅ All unit tests pass
• ✅ Added test_issue_2544_respect_pyproject_dynamic() to verify fields are excluded when not in dynamic list
• ✅ Added test_issue_2544_respect_pyproject_dynamic_with_dynamic_fields() to verify fields are included when in dynamic list
• ✅ Manually verified with end-to-end wheel builds
• ✅ Updated existing test cases to maintain compatibility

Fields Affected

The following metadata fields now respect the dynamic list:

• description → summary in wheel metadata
• authors → author and author-email
• maintainers → maintainer and maintainer-email
• keywords → keywords
• urls → project-url
• license → license
• classifiers → classifiers
• readme → description and description-content-type
• requires-python → requires-python

This ensures full PEP 621 compliance while maintaining backward compatibility for projects that explicitly declare their dynamic fields.

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@copilot run cargo fmt to format Rust code.

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[ruuda]

This is an important bugfix. I noticed that the latest version of Maturin behaves correctly, and that older versions did not, but I couldn’t find anything in the changelog about this fix. Only when I tested a few different versions, and then read through the git log for the range where the commit must have happened, I found this pull request. It would be good to still mention this in the changelog for 1.9.2, in particular that this fixes setting the Author field.