[Bug]: `DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back` with newer pip when installing delvewheel

[timfel]

Describe the bug

FYI, I partially reverted the constraints bumps in 17d38bab10cc21c6ac6ef015b46a09973ba57346 because there was a failure likely due to pip==26.1.1 in https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/actions/runs/25509576233/job/74864644182?pr=2831, which I was kind of stumped by, where GraalPy's pip was unable to install delvewheel at all. cc: @timfel for visibility. pip==26.0.1 works fine.

Originally posted by @agriyakhetarpal in pypa/cibuildwheel#2831 (comment)

Operating system

Windows

CPU architecture

x86_64

GraalPy version

25.0.2

JDK version

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Context configuration

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Steps to reproduce

See https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/actions/runs/25509576233/job/74864644182?pr=2831

Expected behavior

Installation should work.

Stack trace

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: ('Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it.', error('DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back

Java stack trace:
java.util.zip.DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back
    at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.jni.functions.JNIFunctions$NewObjectWithObjectArrayArgFunctionPointer.invoke(JNIFunctions.java)
    at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.jni.functions.JNIFunctions.ThrowNew(JNIFunctions.java:913)
    at java.base@25.0.2/java.util.zip.Inflater.inflateBytesBytes(Native Method)
    at java.base@25.0.2/java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Inflater.java:354)
    at org.graalvm.py/com.oracle.graal.python.builtins.modules.zlib.JavaDecompress.createByteArray(JavaDecompress.java:268)
    at org.graalvm.py/com.oracle.graal.python.builtins.modules.zlib.JavaDecompress.decompress(JavaDecompress.java:288)

Additional context

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[timfel]

Fixed in #836