[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg permissions bug

[Russell E. Owen]

bdist_mpkg 0.4.4 has a nasty habit of making data files unreadable by 
anyone except the file owner (the umask ends in 00). For example when 
using bdist_mkpg to make an installer for matplotlib for all files in 
mpl-data end up with this issue.

There is a workaround: let bdist_mpkg run to completion, then delete the 
mpgk, fix the permissions in the build directory and run bdist_mpkg 
again.

Any idea who (if anyone) maintains this package and what might have 
changed to cause this problem? Older versions of bdist_mpkg did not 
exhibit this problem, though I'm not sure exactly when it appeared, nor 
whether it is in bdist_mpkg itself or a package it relies on.

-- Russell