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r69700 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-16 23:38:43 +0100 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line
note about #2279
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
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:file:`Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more complete list of
changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
+* In Distutils, distutils.sdist.add_defaults now uses package_dir and data_files
+ to feed MANIFEST.
+
* It is not mandatory anymore to store clear text passwords in the
:file:`.pypirc` file when registering and uploading packages to PyPI. As long
as the username is present in that file, the :mod:`distutils` package will