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 Library
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+- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
+  Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
+
 - Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
 
 - Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).