Branch merge

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/packaging/config.py b/Lib/packaging/config.py
index 366faea4ed..ab026a83b6 100644
--- a/Lib/packaging/config.py
+++ b/Lib/packaging/config.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ def _check_name(name, packages):
     if '.' not in name:
         return
     parts = name.split('.')
-    modname = parts[-1]
     parent = '.'.join(parts[:-1])
     if parent not in packages:
         # we could log a warning instead of raising, but what's the use
@@ -227,13 +226,25 @@ class Config:
                 self.dist.scripts = [self.dist.scripts]
 
             self.dist.package_data = {}
+            # bookkeeping for the loop below
+            firstline = True
+            prev = None
+
             for line in files.get('package_data', []):
-                data = line.split('=')
-                if len(data) != 2:
-                    raise ValueError('invalid line for package_data: %s '
-                                     '(misses "=")' % line)
-                key, value = data
-                self.dist.package_data[key.strip()] = value.strip()
+                if '=' in line:
+                    # package name -- file globs or specs
+                    key, value = line.split('=')
+                    prev = self.dist.package_data[key.strip()] = value.split()
+                elif firstline:
+                    # invalid continuation on the first line
+                    raise PackagingOptionError(
+                        'malformed package_data first line: %r (misses "=")' %
+                        line)
+                else:
+                    # continuation, add to last seen package name
+                    prev.extend(line.split())
+
+                firstline = False
 
             self.dist.data_files = []
             for data in files.get('data_files', []):