diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
index 597b26c..0dad1ac 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@
         self.build_script = None
         self.install_script = None
         self.clean_script = None
+        self.verify_script = None
         self.pre_install = None
         self.post_install = None
         self.pre_uninstall = None
@@ -208,6 +209,7 @@
         self.ensure_filename('build_script')
         self.ensure_filename('install_script')
         self.ensure_filename('clean_script')
+        self.ensure_filename('verify_script')
         self.ensure_filename('pre_install')
         self.ensure_filename('post_install')
         self.ensure_filename('pre_uninstall')
@@ -424,6 +426,7 @@
               "--root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT "
               "--record=INSTALLED_FILES") % self.python),
             ('clean', 'clean_script', "rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT"),
+            ('verifyscript', 'verify_script', None),
             ('pre', 'pre_install', None),
             ('post', 'post_install', None),
             ('preun', 'pre_uninstall', None),
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4fc52ea..d35cc0f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
 - Fixed bug #470582: sre module would return a tuple (None, 'a', 'ab')
   when applying the regular expression '^((a)c)?(ab)$' on 'ab'. It now
   returns (None, None, 'ab'), as expected. Also fixed handling of
-  lastindex/lastgroup match attributes in a similar cases. For example,
+  lastindex/lastgroup match attributes in similar cases. For example,
   when running the expression r'(a)(b)?b' over 'ab', lastindex must be
   1, not 2.
 
@@ -558,6 +558,10 @@
 - New pdb command `pp' which is like `p' except that it pretty-prints
   the value of its expression argument.
 
+- Now bdist_rpm distutils command understands a verify_script option in
+  the config file, including the contents of the referred filename in
+  the "%verifyscript" section of the rpm spec file.
+
 Tools/Demos
 -----------