Broken handling of distutils manifest file in Python 2.6.6 reverted

[Éric Araujo]

Hello

Python 2.6.6rc2 is out, with the commit that introduced a regression in
2.6.6a1 reverted (see http://bugs.python.org/issue8688). From the mouth
of the release manager Barry Warsaw:

> it's still a big enough change between rc1 and final that I encourage
> folks who are affected by this to test current svn head for
> release26-maint and make sure it's working the way you expect it to.
> This means "the same as Python 2.6.5".  We've decided not to apply
> any behavior changing patches to Python 2.6 so you'll just have to
> live with the devil you know here, or upgrade to Python 2.7.
>
> Please let me know before [August 24] if you notice any problems.

A patch to work around 2.6.6rc1 has been made by Tarek Ziadé, the
distutils maintainer:
http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-packaging/2010-August/000009.html

Let me know if there is anything I can do. Please CC me on replies, I’m
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Regards