[issue8688] distutils sdist is too laze w.r.t. recalculating MANIFEST

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

this fix was done to avoid generating broken MANIFEST file with sdist.

IIUC your problem is more about avoiding generating a MANIFEST file at *all* via sdist, so we should add a --no-manifest option to the sdist command.

This can be added today in Mercurial setup.py file as well so you don't have the problem with 2.7. I can contribute this change if you want.

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