Summary

I'm migrating pypa/packaging.python.org#989 since the relevant document has moved here with #4108.

Posted by @shi-yan:

"""
this is a poor document regarding manifest.in usage.

https://packaging.python.org/guides/using-manifest-in/

for example it doesn't contain any example for using recursive-include

recursive-include folder
recursive-include parent/folder

don't work at all.

it has to be

recursive-include folder *.html

"""

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