reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py
index c2af95f..2d39922 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py
@@ -7,18 +7,16 @@
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
-
-from sysconfig import get_python_version
-
-from distutils.util import get_platform
 from distutils.core import Command
+from distutils.util import get_platform
 from distutils.dir_util import remove_tree, ensure_relative
-from distutils.errors import DistutilsPlatformError
+from distutils.errors import *
+from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_version
 from distutils import log
 
 class bdist_dumb(Command):
 
-    description = 'create a "dumb" built distribution'
+    description = "create a \"dumb\" built distribution"
 
     user_options = [('bdist-dir=', 'd',
                      "temporary directory for creating the distribution"),
@@ -37,12 +35,6 @@
                     ('relative', None,
                      "build the archive using relative paths"
                      "(default: false)"),
-                    ('owner=', 'u',
-                     "Owner name used when creating a tar file"
-                     " [default: current user]"),
-                    ('group=', 'g',
-                     "Group name used when creating a tar file"
-                     " [default: current group]"),
                    ]
 
     boolean_options = ['keep-temp', 'skip-build', 'relative']
@@ -59,8 +51,6 @@
         self.dist_dir = None
         self.skip_build = 0
         self.relative = 0
-        self.owner = None
-        self.group = None
 
     def finalize_options(self):
         if self.bdist_dir is None:
@@ -118,8 +108,7 @@
 
         # Make the archive
         filename = self.make_archive(pseudoinstall_root,
-                                     self.format, root_dir=archive_root,
-                                     owner=self.owner, group=self.group)
+                                     self.format, root_dir=archive_root)
         if self.distribution.has_ext_modules():
             pyversion = get_python_version()
         else: