[Distutils] util.copy_file and --dry-run

[Bastian Kleineidam]

  I found a misleading behaviour with the --dry-run option. Suppose you
  create a directory and then you copy a file in this directory. With
  --dry-run the directory is not created and this makes the copy_file
  function to announce the renaming of the file rather than copying it
  into the new directory.
  
  code snippet:
  ./setup.py --dry-run build
  [...]
  creating build/scripts
  copying linkchecker -> build
  
  should be:
  creating build/scripts
  copying linkchecker -> build/scripts
  
  I do not have a fix for this. I think this is a feature, not a bug.
  
  Bastian

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