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  r76686 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-06 10:28:17 +0100 (Sun, 06 Dec 2009) | 9 lines

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    r76684 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-06 10:22:40 +0100 (Sun, 06 Dec 2009) | 1 line

    Fixed #1923: make sure we don't strip meaningful whitespace in PKG-INFO Description field
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 4bc4c98..50ad8fe 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -557,8 +557,8 @@
     """Return a version of the string escaped for inclusion in an
     RFC-822 header, by ensuring there are 8 spaces space after each newline.
     """
-    lines = [x.strip() for x in header.split('\n')]
-    sep = '\n' + 8*' '
+    lines = header.split('\n')
+    sep = '\n' + 8 * ' '
     return sep.join(lines)
 
 # 2to3 support