Merge fix for #8286 from 3.2

diff --cc Misc/NEWS
index d83c12226c60f4c35fe373691e32f2de5829e928,f9eb1cd1dc1cf02f883bcaafc751b67d744b8dbf..30761e7057522e3a1d4b199a599dcf9b6d41a58d
--- 1/Misc/NEWS
--- 2/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@@ -271,17 -28,13 +271,20 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
  -------
  
+ - Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
+   of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
+ 
  - Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
  
 +- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
 +  getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
 +  read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
 +
 +- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
 +
  - Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
 -  now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
 +  now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.  The packaging commands
 +  were fixed too.
  
  - Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
    the C pickle implementation.