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  r75192 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-03 01:49:48 +0200 (Sat, 03 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  #6516 added owner/group support for tarfiles in Distutils
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+- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in 
+  Distutils.
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 - Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
 
 - Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in