Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group parameters to sdist command as found in Python 2.7 and originally slated for Python 3.2 but accidentally rolled back as part of the distutils2 rollback. Closes Issue #6516.

Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ 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']
@@ -77,6 +83,8 @@ 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'
@@ -122,6 +130,11 @@ 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:]: