[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[P.J. Eby]

At 06:45 PM 4/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>Hello
>
>After some discussions with people at Pycon, we think that the
>MANIFEST template should be removed.
>
>I would like to deprecate MANIFEST.in in Distutils, in favor of a
>package_data that can match directories with a glob-style pattern
>see : http://bugs.python.org/issue5302

What about documentation files, data files, examples, and tests -- 
all of which might need to be included in an sdist, but would not be 
"package data"?