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authorJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2019-01-27 13:13:57 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-01-27 13:13:57 -0500
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Merge pull request #1640 from pypa/bugfix/1635-disallow-parent-paths
Disallow parent path traversal in resource paths, part 1 (deprecation)
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diff --git a/docs/pkg_resources.txt b/docs/pkg_resources.txt
index 0c9fb5f2..806f1b14 100644
--- a/docs/pkg_resources.txt
+++ b/docs/pkg_resources.txt
@@ -1132,8 +1132,8 @@ relative to the root of the identified distribution; i.e. its first path
segment will be treated as a peer of the top-level modules or packages in the
distribution.
-Note that resource names must be ``/``-separated paths and cannot be absolute
-(i.e. no leading ``/``) or contain relative names like ``".."``. Do *not* use
+Note that resource names must be ``/``-separated paths rooted at the package,
+cannot contain relative names like ``".."``, and cannot be absolute. Do *not* use
``os.path`` routines to manipulate resource paths, as they are *not* filesystem
paths.