Prepare release 2.17
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++ Version 2.17 (29.10.2016)
+
+  - Again functionality identical to 2.15 and 2.16; the difference is that the
+    tarball now contains Python files with properly set permissions.
+
 + Version 2.16 (18.10.2016)
 
   - Functionally identical to 2.15, but fixes a packaging problem that caused