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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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+- 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.
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 - 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.