checkout (but a mercurial one). Closes #11579. Closes #11421.
Patch by Senthil Kumaran.

Patch by Tom N. (Backported from py3k codeline).

Reverted bug fixes for #11444 (fc4d045e3170) and #11424 (b9d76846bb1c), which should not have been made in this branch.

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  r87663 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-01-02 18:23:54 -0500 (Sun, 02 Jan 2011) | 13 lines

  Merged revisions 87648,87656 via svnmerge from
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    r87648 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-01-02 15:48:22 -0500 (Sun, 02 Jan 2011) | 1 line

    Issue #8013: Fixed time.asctime segfault when OS's asctime fails
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    r87656 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-01-02 17:16:10 -0500 (Sun, 02 Jan 2011) | 1 line

    Issue #8013: Fixed test
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  r87541 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-12-28 10:47:56 -0500 (Tue, 28 Dec 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 87442 via svnmerge from
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    r87442 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-12-22 21:27:37 -0500 (Wed, 22 Dec 2010) | 1 line

    Issue #10254: Fixed a crash and a regression introduced by the implementation of PRI 29.
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  r87543 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-12-28 11:04:06 -0500 (Tue, 28 Dec 2010) | 1 line

  fixed issue 10254 test
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backporting security fix of issue 9129 (smtpd module vulnerable to DoS attacks in case of connection bashing)

  Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
  ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size

Issue #8674: fix another bogus overflow check in audioop module.

Issue #8674: Fix incorrect and UB-inducing overflow checks in audioop
module.  Thanks Tomas Hoger for the patch.