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r68951 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-26 00:34:00 +0100 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Fixed #1885: --formats=tar,gztar was not working properly in the sdist command
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@
operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
+- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
+ the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
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- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
- Added a new function: itertools.compress().