commentary about how bad ConfigParser is doesn't help here, and the
suggested approach to dealing with it isn't a good one; we need a
better general purpose config reader, not a distutils-specific reader
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index f63ea97..586e6bb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -346,9 +346,7 @@
opt_dict[opt] = (filename, val)
# Make the ConfigParser forget everything (so we retain
- # the original filenames that options come from) -- gag,
- # retch, puke -- another good reason for a distutils-
- # specific config parser (sigh...)
+ # the original filenames that options come from)
parser.__init__()
# If there was a "global" section in the config file, use it