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  r77735 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-24 21:31:13 -0600 (Sun, 24 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  fix an UnboundLocalError when the release file is empty #7773
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 Library
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+- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
+  the release file is empty.
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 - Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options
   in Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
   encoded string for them. This ensure that the upload and register commands