#1530959: change distutils build dir for --with-pydebug python builds.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5768951..2f4d48e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -369,6 +369,10 @@
 Library
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+- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
+  when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled
+  with ``--with-pydebug``.
+
 - #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library.
 
 - #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for