Issue 1473 (build_sdist expects only .tar.gz)

"A_Rog " <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I was having a look at https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1473 but am unclear what is going wrong. 

Running: (python3 setup.py sdist --formats zip) gives what i would expect to be the desired result. 

[setup-tools-tes ~ 04:17] $ python3 setup.py sdist --formats zip
running sdist
running egg_info
writing HelloWorld.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to HelloWorld.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to HelloWorld.egg-info/top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'HelloWorld.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'HelloWorld.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
warning: sdist: standard file not found: should have one of README, README.rst, README.txt, README.md

running check
warning: check: missing required meta-data: url

warning: check: missing meta-data: either (author and author_email) or (maintainer and maintainer_email) must be supplied

creating HelloWorld-0.1
creating HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info
copying files to HelloWorld-0.1...
copying setup.py -> HelloWorld-0.1
copying HelloWorld.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info
copying HelloWorld.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info
copying HelloWorld.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info
copying HelloWorld.egg-info/top_level.txt -> HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info
Writing HelloWorld-0.1/setup.cfg
creating 'dist/HelloWorld-0.1.zip' and adding 'HelloWorld-0.1' to it
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/setup.py'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/PKG-INFO'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/setup.cfg'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info/top_level.txt'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info/dependency_links.txt'
adding 'HelloWorld-0.1/HelloWorld.egg-info/PKG-INFO'
removing 'HelloWorld-0.1' (and everything under it)

[setup-tools-tes ~ 04:17] $ ls dist/
HelloWorld-0.1.zip
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