From b7e7b3f759051991d00b75aeb2caceb118b68923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masood Malekghassemi <soltanmm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:16:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Redirect Python manifest to less ambiguous filename

---
 INVENTORY.md                      | 1 +
 MANIFEST.in => PYTHON-MANIFEST.in | 0
 setup.py                          | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
 rename MANIFEST.in => PYTHON-MANIFEST.in (100%)

diff --git a/INVENTORY.md b/INVENTORY.md
index 7da7f9253c3..b523f8f6fa5 100644
--- a/INVENTORY.md
+++ b/INVENTORY.md
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 * [setup.cfg](setup.cfg)
 * [setup.py](setup.py)
 * [tox.ini](tox.ini)
+* [PYTHON-MANIFEST.in](PYTHON-MANIFEST.in)
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/PYTHON-MANIFEST.in
similarity index 100%
rename from MANIFEST.in
rename to PYTHON-MANIFEST.in
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e0b0bf7622d..646c01342c6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ import sys
 from distutils import core as _core
 from distutils import extension as _extension
 import setuptools
+from setuptools.command import egg_info
+
+# Redirect the manifest template from MANIFEST.in to PYTHON-MANIFEST.in.
+egg_info.manifest_maker.template = 'PYTHON-MANIFEST.in'
 
 PYTHON_STEM = './src/python/grpcio/'
 CORE_INCLUDE = ('./include', './',)