> I just recreated this patch against version 2.7, so I'm not sure it
> can be applied to all the listed versions.
It’s okay, distutils in 2.7 and 3.x is very similar, I can port.

> Note: there still are two pathes, one for sdist.py and another for
> test_sdist.py
Why?  hg diff can create one patch for many files.  It’s a bit easier if you upload just one patch.  Anyway, it’s not an issue, just upload the missing patch for sdist.py.