On behalf of Tarek: Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no
longer fails if zlib is not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED
compression is used to create the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d4ce939..c4627fa 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
+ not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
+ the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
+
- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
the documentation and general logic.