diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
index 9ae2e4d..6fed2fa 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@
 distribution being described.  If no qualifiers are given, all versions of the
 named module or package are understood to be obsoleted.
 
+.. _distutils-installing-scripts:
 
 Installing Scripts
 ==================
@@ -449,6 +450,12 @@
          scripts=['scripts/xmlproc_parse', 'scripts/xmlproc_val']
          )
 
+All the scripts will also be added to the ``MANIFEST``
+file if no template is provided. See :ref:`manifest`.
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.7
+
+.. _distutils-installing-package-data:
 
 Installing Package Data
 =======================
@@ -491,6 +498,13 @@
          )
 
 
+All the files that match ``package_data`` will be added to the ``MANIFEST``
+file if no template is provided. See :ref:`manifest`.
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.7
+
+.. _distutils-additional-files:
+
 Installing Additional Files
 ===========================
 
@@ -525,6 +539,11 @@
 files directly in the target directory, an empty string should be given as the
 directory.
 
+All the files that match ``data_files`` will be added to the ``MANIFEST``
+file if no template is provided. See :ref:`manifest`.
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.7
+
 
 .. _meta-data:
 
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst b/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
index 960cc0a..5c0e5d0 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
   :meth:`get_source_files` method in :file:`build_clib.py`! **\*\***)
 
 * scripts identified by the :option:`scripts` option
+  See :ref:`distutils-installing-scripts`.
 
 * anything that looks like a test script: :file:`test/test\*.py` (currently, the
   Distutils don't do anything with test scripts except include them in source
@@ -83,6 +84,17 @@
 * :file:`README.txt` (or :file:`README`), :file:`setup.py` (or whatever  you
   called your setup script), and :file:`setup.cfg`
 
+* all files that matches the ``package_data`` metadata.
+  See :ref:`distutils-installing-package-data`.
+
+  .. versionadded:: 2.7
+
+* all files that matches the ``data_files`` metadata.
+  See :ref:`distutils-additional-files`.
+
+  .. versionadded:: 2.7
+
+
 Sometimes this is enough, but usually you will want to specify additional files
 to distribute.  The typical way to do this is to write a *manifest template*,
 called :file:`MANIFEST.in` by default.  The manifest template is just a list of