A short first comment: in MANIFEST.in, according to the python docs, the "include" directive is not recursive, so we can't just include "*.mako" and "*.py", we have to keep the full path to the files' directories. You can check that by running sdist, the database/alembic/version/*.py files and the mako script will not be included. -- https://code.launchpad.net/~barry/mailman/abhilash/+merge/238222 Your team Mailman Coders is requested to review the proposed merge of lp:~barry/mailman/abhilash into lp:mailman.