Legacy requirements: Incorrect comments?

[dairiki]

BPO	1058937

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[dairiki]

Comments in numerous files state:

# This module should be kept compatible with Python
1.5.2.

However, according to this post on distutils-sig, the
current target is Python 2.1.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2004-September/004168.html

At least the following files contain the above-quoted
comment:

distutils/init.py
distutils/command/init.py
distutils/command/bdist.py
distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py
distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
distutils/command/build.py
distutils/command/build_clib.py
distutils/command/build_ext.py
distutils/command/build_py.py
distutils/command/build_scripts.py
distutils/command/clean.py
distutils/command/config.py
distutils/command/install.py
distutils/command/install_data.py
distutils/command/install_headers.py
distutils/command/install_lib.py
distutils/command/install_scripts.py
distutils/command/sdist.py
distutils/command/obsolete/bdist_wininst.py.v0
distutils/archive_util.py
distutils/bcppcompiler.py
distutils/ccompiler.py
distutils/cmd.py
distutils/core.py
distutils/cygwinccompiler.py
distutils/debug.py
distutils/dep_util.py
distutils/dir_util.py
distutils/dist.py
distutils/errors.py
distutils/fancy_getopt.py
distutils/file_util.py
distutils/filelist.py
distutils/log.py
distutils/msvccompiler.py
distutils/mwerkscompiler.py
distutils/spawn.py