fix: prevent .whl files from being corrupted during pack

[radu-mocanu]

Summary

• add .whl to the packager's binary-file extensions so wheel files added via packOptions.fileExtensionsIncluded are copied byte-for-byte into the .nupkg
• add a regression test that packs a .whl with high-byte content and asserts it round-trips unmodified

Why

Files not in BINARY_EXTENSIONS are read as text (with a latin-1 fallback that "succeeds" on any byte sequence) and rewritten via zipfile.writestr(str), which re-encodes as UTF-8. For a .whl file (itself a zip full of arbitrary binary bytes), this silently corrupts the archive, so a wheel bundled into a package this way becomes an unreadable zip at runtime ("Invalid zip file structure"). This surfaced while validating an offline dependency bundling workflow for #1603.

Development Packages

uipath

[project]
dependencies = [
  # Exact version (copy-paste ready):
  "uipath==2.12.3.dev1017827077",

  # Any version from this PR (uncomment to use a range instead):
  # "uipath>=2.12.3.dev1017820000,<2.12.3.dev1017830000",
]

[[tool.uv.index]]
name = "testpypi"
url = "https://test.pypi.org/simple/"
publish-url = "https://test.pypi.org/legacy/"
explicit = true

[tool.uv.sources]
uipath = { index = "testpypi" }

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR fixes an issue in the uipath CLI packager where .whl files (wheel archives) included via packOptions.fileExtensionsIncluded could be corrupted during packaging due to being treated as text instead of binary. It updates the binary-extension classification so wheel files are written byte-for-byte into the resulting .nupkg, and adds a regression test to ensure the packed wheel content round-trips unmodified.

Changes:

• Add .whl to the CLI’s archive/binary extension set so wheels are handled as binary.
• Add a regression test that generates a wheel-like zip with high-byte content and verifies it is not altered in the .nupkg.
• Bump uipath package version to 2.12.3 (and update lockfile accordingly).

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
packages/uipath/src/uipath/_cli/_utils/_constants.py	Treat .whl as an archive/binary extension so it’s packed without text transcoding.
packages/uipath/tests/cli/test_pack.py	Adds regression coverage to verify .whl bytes are preserved exactly through packing.
packages/uipath/pyproject.toml	Version bump to 2.12.3.
packages/uipath/uv.lock	Lockfile updated for the new local package version.

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Issues
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