Why is wheel acting so weird in during 'pip3 install -r requirements'?

I added 'pip instal wheel' so that it installs before all the other ones

.gitlab-ci.yml

-build-job:
-  stage: build
-  script:
-    - python3 -m venv venv
-    - . venv/bin/activate
-    - pip3 install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir
-
-test-job:
-  stage: test
-  script:
-    - pytest
-
-# deploy-job:
-#   stage: deploy
-#   script:
-    # - echo "Now I'm Deploying to VM!"
-    # - flask run &
-    # - echo "Now I'm Deploying to Heroku!"
-    # - dpl --provider=heroku --app=metarl --api-key=5ccc3ae7-725e-4f9f-b441-0c9a28ebdc1b
+build-job:
+  stage: build
+  script:
+    - python3 -m venv venv
+    - . venv/bin/activate
+    - pip3 install wheel
+    - pip3 install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir
+
+test-job:
+  stage: test
+  script:
+    - pytest
+
+# deploy-job:
+#   stage: deploy
+#   script:
+    # - echo "Now I'm Deploying to VM!"
+    # - flask run &
+    # - echo "Now I'm Deploying to Heroku!"
+    # - dpl --provider=heroku --app=metarl --api-key=5ccc3ae7-725e-4f9f-b441-0c9a28ebdc1b