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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
index c72e51a..0284e1d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -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.
+
 - Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
 
 - Added a new function:  itertools.compress().