Fixed #1923: make sure we don't strip meaningful whitespace in PKG-INFO Description field
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 6bff44f..b8e4952 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -558,8 +558,8 @@
"""Return a version of the string escaped for inclusion in an
RFC-822 header, by ensuring there are 8 spaces space after each newline.
"""
- lines = [x.strip() for x in header.split('\n')]
- sep = '\n' + 8*' '
+ lines = header.split('\n')
+ sep = '\n' + 8 * ' '
return sep.join(lines)
_RE_VERSION = re.compile('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)')