astropy/astropy — pull request #1303 by mdboom (2013-07-30 20:18:54+00:00)
Title: Make update_package_files future-proof

`update_package_files` keeps growing new keyword arguments. To prevent affiliated packages from needing to update their `setup.py` files on a regular basis, it has been replaced with `get_package_info` which returns a dictionary suitable for use as keyword arguments to `distutils.setup`. The old update_package_files is still around for backward-compatibility, but displays a `DeprecationWarning`.