Wheel failed include data_files

[atya]

BPO	32504
Nosy	@benjaminp, @Atya

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title = 'Wheel failed include data_files'
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[atya]

Hi,

I created a wheel using python3.4 install bdist_wheel command.

I have data dir and in contains files Test.png.

in setup.py I added
data_files=[
('/usr/share', ['data/Test.png'])
]

when I am instaating the wheel the data files did not copy.

[benjaminp]

Please report to the wheel maintainers at https://github.com/pypa/wheel