Backed out changeset: 1ceaffff2d9b (restoring b0a2fcc5275a). Ref #193

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extra : rebase_source : 5ca0514bbe3ec025094ea8f39921722d0ab3dd05

setuptools/command/egg_info.py

@@ -303,8 +303,7 @@ def write_file(filename, contents):
     sequence of strings without line terminators) to it.
     """
     contents = "\n".join(contents)
-    if sys.version_info >= (3,):
-        contents = contents.encode("utf-8")
+    contents = contents.encode("utf-8")
     f = open(filename, "wb")        # always write POSIX-style manifest
     f.write(contents)
     f.close()