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40. By Jonathan Marsden

* debian/patches/locales-without-encoding.dpatch:
  - Allow locales with no specified encoding. (LP: #223281)

39. By Matthias Klose

python2.6-doc: Fix searching in local documentation. LP: #456025.

38. By Matthias Klose

* Python 2.6.4 final release.
  - No changes compared to the release candidate 2.
* distutils install: Don't install into /usr/local/local, if option
  --prefix=/usr/local is present. LP: #456917.

37. By Matthias Klose

* Python 2.6.4 release candidate 2.
  - Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
    crash in GAE.
  - Issue #7149: fix exception in urllib when detecting proxy settings
    on OSX.

36. By Matthias Klose

Build _hashlib as an extension, not a plugin. Work around a bug
in several packages linking extensions with LOCALMODLIBS, which
is used to link the python binary only.

35. By Matthias Klose

* Update from the 2.6 release branch.
  - Issue #7115: Fixed the extension module builds that is failing when
    using paths in the extension name instead of dotted names. LP: #449734.
  - Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy"
    environment.

34. By Matthias Klose

* Python 2.6.4 release candidate 1.
  - Issue #7068: Fixed the partial renaming that occured in r72594.
  - Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
* Remove the conflict with python-setuptools (fixed in issue #7068).
* Build _hashlib as a builtin. LP: #445530.
* python2.6-doc: Don't compress the sphinx inventory.
* python2.6-doc: Fix jquery.js symlink. LP: #447370.

33. By Matthias Klose

* Update from the 2.6 release branch.
  - Issue #7052: Removed nonexisting NullHandler from logging.__all__.
  - Issue #7039: Fixed distutils.tests.test_sysconfig when running on
    installation with no build.
  - Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
    of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.

32. By Matthias Klose

* Final Python 2.6.3 release.
  - Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
    sequence running through the shell.
  - Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
    after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
  - Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
    `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`.
* python2.6-dbg: Don't create debug subdirectory in /usr/local. No
  separate debug directory needed anymore. LP: #421270.
* Run the benchmark with -C 2 -n 5 -w 4 on all architectures.
* Build-depend on the versioned db4.x-dev to avoid unexpected updates
  for anydbm databases.

31. By Matthias Klose

* Update to 20090923, taken from the 2.6 release branch.
  - Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
    UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or
    "ignore".
  - Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
  - Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
    attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
  - Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
    and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
  - Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
  - Issue #6947: Fix distutils test on windows. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
  - Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
    does now always result in NULL.
  - Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
    correctly with base class positional arguments.
  - Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
    debug message.
  - Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
    with something other than a tuple as first argument.
  - Issue #6980: Fix ctypes build failure on armel-linux-gnueabi with
    -mfloat-abi=softfp.
* Rebuild with fixed libffi on armel.
* Run the benchmark with -C 2 -n 5 -w 4 on slow architectures.

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