[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[P.J. Eby]

At 11:24 PM 4/5/2009 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 06:45:45PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> > After some discussions with people at Pycon, we think that the
> > MANIFEST template should be removed.
>
>+1 for fixing the mess that setuptools + distutils manage to make out of
>the manifest (MANIFEST.in + old MANIFEST lying around + .svn metadata =>
>lots of confusion and lack of reproducibility)

If you've reported this as a problem or filed a bug for it, I appear 
to have missed it.  Steps to reproduce, and the expected vs. actual 
behavior would be helpful.