Improve the phrasing of in-tree-build deprecation

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pypa · Jul 29, 2021 · 7861b7d · 7861b7d
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diff --git a/news/10128.removal.rst b/news/10128.removal.rst
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+Improve deprecation warning regarding the copying of source trees when installing from a local directory.
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py b/src/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py
@@ -216,11 +216,12 @@ def unpack_url(
     # be removed.
     if link.is_existing_dir():
         deprecated(
-            "A future pip version will change local packages to be built "
-            "in-place without first copying to a temporary directory. "
-            "We recommend you use --use-feature=in-tree-build to test "
-            "your packages with this new behavior before it becomes the "
-            "default.\n",
+            "pip currently copies the source tree into a temporary directory "
+            "before building it. In the future, pip will build packages in-place "
+            "within the original source tree (\"in-tree build\"). Before the "
+            "default behavior changes, we recommend testing your packages by "
+            "adding the --use-feature=in-tree-build argument. Regarding the "
+            "current out-of-tree default build behavior,\n",
             replacement=None,
             gone_in="21.3",
             issue=7555