reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.

Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py

@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@ distribution)."""
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
-
-from distutils.util import get_platform
 from distutils.core import Command
-from distutils.errors import DistutilsPlatformError, DistutilsOptionError
+from distutils.errors import *
+from distutils.util import get_platform
 
 
 def show_formats():
@@ -40,12 +39,6 @@ class bdist(Command):
                      "[default: dist]"),
                     ('skip-build', None,
                      "skip rebuilding everything (for testing/debugging)"),
-                    ('owner=', 'u',
-                     "Owner name used when creating a tar file"
-                     " [default: current user]"),
-                    ('group=', 'g',
-                     "Group name used when creating a tar file"
-                     " [default: current group]"),
                    ]
 
     boolean_options = ['skip-build']
@@ -87,8 +80,6 @@ class bdist(Command):
         self.formats = None
         self.dist_dir = None
         self.skip_build = 0
-        self.group = None
-        self.owner = None
 
     def finalize_options(self):
         # have to finalize 'plat_name' before 'bdist_base'
@@ -134,11 +125,6 @@ class bdist(Command):
             if cmd_name not in self.no_format_option:
                 sub_cmd.format = self.formats[i]
 
-            # passing the owner and group names for tar archiving
-            if cmd_name == 'bdist_dumb':
-                sub_cmd.owner = self.owner
-                sub_cmd.group = self.group
-
             # If we're going to need to run this command again, tell it to
             # keep its temporary files around so subsequent runs go faster.
             if cmd_name in commands[i+1:]: