[issue26445] setup.py sdist mishandles package_dir option

[glep]

glep added the comment:

Actually I have come to realise that this is the intended behaviour for source distributions. And that it is simply not possible to pull in a package from outside the current top-level package when building a source distribution.

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resolution:  -> not a bug
status: open -> closed

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