Remove superfluous RequirementParseError. Ref #1832.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index edd3d2e8..56be3c22 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -3068,11 +3068,6 @@ def issue_warning(*args, **kw):
     warnings.warn(stacklevel=level + 1, *args, **kw)
 
 
-class RequirementParseError(ValueError):
-    def __str__(self):
-        return ' '.join(self.args)
-
-
 def parse_requirements(strs):
     """Yield ``Requirement`` objects for each specification in `strs`
 
@@ -3098,10 +3093,7 @@ def parse_requirements(strs):
 class Requirement(packaging.requirements.Requirement):
     def __init__(self, requirement_string):
         """DO NOT CALL THIS UNDOCUMENTED METHOD; use Requirement.parse()!"""
-        try:
-            super(Requirement, self).__init__(requirement_string)
-        except packaging.requirements.InvalidRequirement as e:
-            raise RequirementParseError(str(e))
+        super(Requirement, self).__init__(requirement_string)
         self.unsafe_name = self.name
         project_name = safe_name(self.name)
         self.project_name, self.key = project_name, project_name.lower()