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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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+- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is 
+  generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
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 - Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
   msvc9compiler.