Add NEWS item mentioning the reverted distutils version number patch.

574cfea9 · Marc-André Lemburg · b4a0cf17 · 574cfea9
Commit 574cfea9 authored Aug 16, 2006 by Marc-André Lemburg
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@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ Core and builtins
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+- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0. The change to
+  keep it programmatically in sync with the Python version running
+  the code (introduced in 2.5b3) has been reverted. It will continue
+  to be maintained manually as static string literal.
+
 - If a the Python part of a ctypes callback function returns None,
  and this cannot be converted to the required C type, an exception is
  printed with PyErr_WriteUnraisable.  Before this change, the C