Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:

>
> That it depends on the architecture currently baffles me.

>

The only explanation I can come up with is that on different machines, the 
order of the tests might be slightly different. That would allow the flag to be 
set differently on different machines, based on which other tests have run 
earlier.

Different ordering could be explained by hash implementations and/or dict 
bucket sizes being different on different architectures.

>>  Can the distutils/packaging duplication not be avoided?
> No.  They are independent modules.  distutils will die; packaging will be 
> improved and cleaned up.  However, contributors can work on packaging only 
> and 
> leave the gruesome backporting work to me.
> 
>>  IMO the correct cpython fix would address this.
> I don’t understand.

I meant removing the duplication - but from your explanation, I agree that 
there is no point, since distutils has a limited lifetime.

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