pythongh-96729: Ensure installers built with Tools/msi/buildrelease.b…

…at have matching UUIDs with official releases (pythonGH-96755) (cherry picked from commit 662782e) Co-authored-by: adang1345 <[email protected]>
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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
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+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
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 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
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		Ensure that Windows releases built with ``Tools\msi\buildrelease.bat`` are
		upgradable to and from official Python releases.