Cheryl Sabella added the comment:
This was fixed under issue 12885.
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nosy: +cheryl.sabella
resolution: -> duplicate
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder: -> distutils.filelist.findall() fails on broken symlink in Py2.x
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New submission from Jan Gosmann:
If there is a symbolic link to a non-existing file anywhere in the source tree
python setup.py sdist fails with an output like the following:
running sdist
running check
warning: check: missing required meta-data: url
error: abc: No such file
