Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group parameters to sdist command as found in Python 2.7 and originally slated for Python 3.2 but accidentally rolled back as part of the distutils2 rollback. Closes Issue #6516.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
index 3ea0810..c89d5ef 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
@@ -365,9 +365,11 @@
         from distutils.spawn import spawn
         spawn(cmd, search_path, dry_run=self.dry_run)
 
-    def make_archive(self, base_name, format, root_dir=None, base_dir=None):
+    def make_archive(self, base_name, format, root_dir=None, base_dir=None,
+                     owner=None, group=None):
         return archive_util.make_archive(base_name, format, root_dir, base_dir,
-                                         dry_run=self.dry_run)
+                                         dry_run=self.dry_run,
+                                         owner=owner, group=group)
 
     def make_file(self, infiles, outfile, func, args,
                   exec_msg=None, skip_msg=None, level=1):