Add files referenced by file: directive in setup.cfg to sdist

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/command/egg_info.py b/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
index 1885efb0..194230a9 100644
--- a/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
+++ b/setuptools/command/egg_info.py
@@ -565,6 +565,7 @@ class manifest_maker(sdist):
         if os.path.exists(self.template):
             self.read_template()
         self.add_license_files()
+        self._add_referenced_files()
         self.prune_file_list()
         self.filelist.sort()
         self.filelist.remove_duplicates()
@@ -622,6 +623,12 @@ class manifest_maker(sdist):
             pass
         self.filelist.extend(license_files)
 
+    def _add_referenced_files(self):
+        """Add files referenced by the config (e.g. `file:` directive) to filelist"""
+        referenced = getattr(self.distribution, '_referenced_files', [])
+        # ^-- fallback if dist comes from distutils or is a custom class
+        self.filelist.extend(referenced)
+
     def prune_file_list(self):
         build = self.get_finalized_command('build')
         base_dir = self.distribution.get_fullname()