diff -r 111c1253ea7a distutils2/tests/test_command_sdist.py
--- a/distutils2/tests/test_command_sdist.py	Sun Apr 17 23:03:49 2011 +0530
+++ b/distutils2/tests/test_command_sdist.py	Sat Apr 23 12:04:00 2011 +0530
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@
 MANIFEST = """\
 # file GENERATED by distutils, do NOT edit
 inroot.txt
-data%(sep)sdata.dt
-scripts%(sep)sscript.py
-some%(sep)sfile.txt
-some%(sep)sother_file.txt
-somecode%(sep)s__init__.py
-somecode%(sep)sdoc.dat
-somecode%(sep)sdoc.txt
+data.dt
+script.py
+file.txt
+other_file.txt
+__init__.py
+doc.dat
+doc.txt
 """
 
 def builder(dist, filelist):
@@ -234,7 +234,9 @@
         self.assertEqual(len(content), 9)
         # checking the MANIFEST
         manifest = open(join(self.tmp_dir, 'MANIFEST')).read()
-        self.assertEqual(manifest, MANIFEST % {'sep': os.sep})
+        # File names should be in the form 'data' and not 'cfg/data.cfg'
+        # issue 10932
+        self.assertEqual(manifest, MANIFEST)
         
         # compare the expected content in zipfile with the original content in the zipfile (Issue 10932).
         # It means that 'config', ['cfg/data.cfg']) will create a file in config/data.cfg, not config/cfg/data.cfg