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@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
+ and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
+ of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
+ information was lost.
+
- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.