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  r83993 | eric.araujo | 2010-08-14 04:30:34 +0200 (sam., 14 août 2010) | 2 lines

  Use a marker in generated MANIFEST files, don't touch files without it. Fixes #8688.
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 Library
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+- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
+  comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
+  without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
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 - Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
   and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
   case in Python 2.5 and earlier).