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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2010-08-14 02:30:34 (GMT)
committerÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2010-08-14 02:30:34 (GMT)
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Use a marker in generated MANIFEST files, don't touch files without it. Fixes #8688.
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@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ Extensions
Library
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+- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
+ comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
+ without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
+
- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
case in Python 2.5 and earlier).