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authorJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2014-05-15 23:39:17 -0400
committerJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2014-05-15 23:39:17 -0400
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Extend docstring for test_write_manifest_skips_non_utf8_filenames
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-rw-r--r--setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py b/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py
index 71d10757..10042a44 100644
--- a/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py
+++ b/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py
@@ -204,7 +204,12 @@ class TestSdistTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertTrue(u_filename in mm.filelist.files)
def test_write_manifest_skips_non_utf8_filenames(self):
- # Test for #303.
+ """
+ Files that cannot be encoded to UTF-8 (specifically, those that
+ weren't originally successfully decoded and have surrogate
+ escapes) should be omitted from the manifest.
+ See https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/303 for history.
+ """
dist = Distribution(SETUP_ATTRS)
dist.script_name = 'setup.py'
mm = manifest_maker(dist)