From 1f30c3777c40fd00b5237556857ca332ead37b6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:14:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Base __version__ on sys.version_info, as distutils is no
 longer maintained separatedly.

---
 Lib/distutils/__init__.py | 4 +++-
 Misc/NEWS                 | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
index 8a28531c8cf..9c60e54690e 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ used from a setup script as
 
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
-__version__ = "2.5.0"
+import sys
+__version__ = "%d.%d.%d" % sys.version_info[:3]
+del sys
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dec5a2c0d57..80d67e2e02d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ Library
   side effects from one test to the next affect outcomes.  ``DocTestFinder``
   has been changed to sort the list of tests it returns.
 
-- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0.
+- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0, and are now kept
+  in sync with sys.version_info[:3].
 
 - Bug #978833: Really close underlying socket in _socketobject.close.