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  r85197 | tarek.ziade | 2010-10-03 16:18:09 +0200 (Sun, 03 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  Fixed #8980: distutils.command.check was failing w/ docutils installed
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+- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed
+  by an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arferver.
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 - Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
   characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.