[Python-Dev] Status of undocumented distutils features in 2.4?

I was looking up something in the distutils source today, and I noticed that there are some new, undocumented, and not quite complete features that were added earlier this year. Specifically, the 'requires' and 'provides' arguments to 'setup()', and the 'checkdep' command. Should these be removed for 2.4? It doesn't seem likely they'd be able to be fleshed out before the beta, especially since as far as I can recall they haven't been discussed on the Distutils-SIG yet, and some of the features don't seem to be in alignment with the relevant PEPs (e.g. PEP 262's definition of "requires" and "provides"). And, the actual current implementation of the dependency checking is (per the author's comments) "kinda hacky".