Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils (#11933).
This is a regression introduced in 9211a5d7d0b4, when uses of ST_MTIME constants were changed to uses of st_mtime attributes. As diagnosed in the bug report, this change is not merely stylistic: st_mtime is a float but ST_MTIME’s resolution is rounded to the seconds, so there was a mismatch between the values seen by file_util and dep_util which caused an sdist to be unnecessarily created a second time on an ext4 filesystem. This patch has been tested by John S. Gruber, who reported the bug. As this is a simple code revert, I think it’s okay to commit without a unit test.
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