From: Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:38:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: note about #2279
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~2008
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f1c95fe004d3cb35f59175a446d2caba55a8a399;p=python

note about #2279
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 77fe3a2d54..8037b1319c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ changes, sorted alphabetically by module name. Consult the
 :file:`Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more complete list of
 changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
 
+* In Distutils, distutils.sdist.add_defaults now uses package_dir and data_files
+  to feed MANIFEST.
+
 * It is not mandatory anymore to store clear text passwords in the
   :file:`.pypirc` file when registering and uploading packages to PyPI. As long
   as the username is present in that file, the :mod:`distutils` package will