Merged revisions 72531 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

........
  r72531 | tarek.ziade | 2009-05-10 12:12:08 +0200 (Sun, 10 May 2009) | 1 line

  fixed #5984 and improved test coverage
........
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0717458..a068c5e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -187,6 +187,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
+  for old-style extensions.
+
 - Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
   names which should not be exported.