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Diffstat (limited to 'setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py | 7 |
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) |