[issue14106] Distutils manifest: recursive-(include|exclude) matches suffix instead of full filename

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If y

[issue14106] Distutils manifest: recursive-(include|exclude) matches suffix instead of full filename

Marius Gedminas added the comment: For the record, this is still a bug in Python 3.8 distutils (and it affects global-(include|exclude) as well), but it's been fixed in setuptools, so it shouldn't affect people writing MANIFEST.in files in 2020. -- nosy: +mgedmin ___

[issue14106] Distutils manifest: recursive-(include|exclude) matches suffix instead of full filename

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks, will look into it. -- assignee: -> eric.araujo components: +Distutils, Distutils2 nosy: +alexis versions: +3rd party ___ Python tracker _

[issue14106] Distutils manifest: recursive-(include|exclude) matches suffix instead of full filename

Changes by Nadeem Vawda : -- dependencies: +Impossible to include file in sdist that starts with 'build' on Win32 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue14106] Distutils manifest: recursive-(include|exclude) matches suffix instead of full filename

New submission from Nadeem Vawda : As I understand it, a MANIFEST.in directive: recursive-include foo bar.* is meant to match files under foo for with names beginning with "bar.". However, the actual regex that is generated for this line is: r'^foo/.*bar\.[^/]*\Z(?ms)' which matches a