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Well, I guess it doesn't hurt leaving it in there. The file gets included on my system when I remove it from MANIFEST.in and keep the setup.py changes, but that's probably due to the "mysterious circumstances" which I described in #3644.

I was just wondering because of what I quoted above:
#3653 (comment)

This answer from stackoverflow kind of nails it:

Seriously, I feel like this ticket is a group therapy session for folks using setuptools and discovering just what a horrid place they have found themselves in life.

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I won't merge this just yet, in case someone else has something to say.

You don't need another patch release after this, do you?