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 Library
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+- 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().