If it's not a bug in distutils1, I imagine it will not be a bug in distutils2, since that will also presumably work with PyPI, and PyPI will be the single solitary supported implementation of the service? 

I also don't see distutils2 in this list http://svn.python.org/projects/  which means either distutils2 isn't part of the standard library, or it doesn't follow the documented patch submission process, or perhaps both? Insight welcome here.