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r76588 | tarek.ziade | 2009-11-29 23:20:30 +0100 (Sun, 29 Nov 2009) | 1 line
Fixed #7408: dropped group ownership checking because it relies on os-specific rules
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py
index c10e973..e0f1e93 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py
@@ -336,10 +336,13 @@
# making sure we have the good rights
archive_name = join(self.tmp_dir, 'dist', 'fake-1.0.tar.gz')
archive = tarfile.open(archive_name)
+
+ # note that we are not testing the group ownership here
+ # because, depending on the platforms and the container
+ # rights (see #7408)
try:
for member in archive.getmembers():
self.assertEquals(member.uid, os.getuid())
- self.assertEquals(member.gid, os.getgid())
finally:
archive.close()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4efc479..96fbbce 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
+ ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
+ from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
+
- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
built-in exception printing.