[Python-Dev] distutils patch

[Russell E. Owen]

A colleague stumbled across distutils bug/misfeature that he found had 
been reported with an associated patch:
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1183712&group_i
d=5470&atid=305470>

and I'm wondering if there's any plans to accept the patch or implement 
some other fix (such as raising an exception if one tries to use a blank 
package name). The current behavior is clearly unexpected and confusing. 
If there's something I can do to help get a fix of some kind into python 
2.5, I'm happy to do it.

Regards,

-- Russell