[Python-checkins] gh-96729: Ensure installers built with Tools/msi/buildrelease.bat have matching UUIDs with official releases (GH-96755)

[zooba]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fe4f2f9a6ba1314e3d2767bc9ef46ddfb3b26ac0
commit: fe4f2f9a6ba1314e3d2767bc9ef46ddfb3b26ac0
branch: 3.11
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: zooba <steve.dower at microsoft.com>
date: 2022-09-14T16:59:34+01:00
summary:

gh-96729: Ensure installers built with Tools/msi/buildrelease.bat have matching UUIDs with official releases (GH-96755)

(cherry picked from commit 662782e95f97d26bd57b3edc6aaf674e30899f44)

Co-authored-by: adang1345 <adang1345 at gmail.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-11-14-23-49.gh-issue-96729.W4uBWL.rst
M Tools/msi/buildrelease.bat

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-11-14-23-49.gh-issue-96729.W4uBWL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-11-14-23-49.gh-issue-96729.W4uBWL.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b67cd200e2d3
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@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Ensure that Windows releases built with ``Tools\msi\buildrelease.bat`` are
+upgradable to and from official Python releases.
diff --git a/Tools/msi/buildrelease.bat b/Tools/msi/buildrelease.bat
index ccec4da12c42..839f6204d9e0 100644
--- a/Tools/msi/buildrelease.bat
+++ b/Tools/msi/buildrelease.bat
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ rem
 rem The following substitutions will be applied to the release URI:
 rem     Variable        Description         Example
 rem     {arch}          architecture        amd64, win32
-set RELEASE_URI=https://www.python.org/{arch}
+rem Do not change the scheme to https. Otherwise, releases built with this
+rem script will not be upgradable to/from official releases of Python.
+set RELEASE_URI=http://www.python.org/{arch}
 
 rem This is the URL that will be used to download installation files.
 rem The files available from the default URL *will* conflict with your