Seems I mis-linked to the upstream bug report in the ticket description. The actual report is <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue4>. Near as I can tell, the upstream fix which was applied is <http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/setuptools/command/sdist.py?r1=52008&r2=60846>. It would seem to be very easy to apply this fix to the Ubuntu package as well.
Seems I mis-linked to the upstream bug report in the ticket description. The actual report is <http:// bugs.python. org/setuptools/ issue4>. Near as I can tell, the upstream fix which was applied is <http:// svn.python. org/view/ sandbox/ trunk/setuptool s/setuptools/ command/ sdist.py? r1=52008& r2=60846>. It would seem to be very easy to apply this fix to the Ubuntu package as well.