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.

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  r84100 | florent.xicluna | 2010-08-16 21:22:18 +0200 (lun., 16 août 2010) | 13 lines

  Merged revisions 84097,84099 via svnmerge from
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    r84097 | florent.xicluna | 2010-08-16 20:41:19 +0200 (lun., 16 août 2010) | 1 line

    Use test.support and unittest features.  Fix duplicated test (bad merge in r79033).  Fix comment for issue #7902.
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    r84099 | florent.xicluna | 2010-08-16 21:03:05 +0200 (lun., 16 août 2010) | 1 line

    I get it wrong in r84097: s/relative/absolute/
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  r82529 | florent.xicluna | 2010-07-04 16:24:40 +0200 (dim., 04 juil. 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #9145: Fix a regression due to r79539
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Same fix as #9513 on 3.x.

ncurses returning ERR from getmouse() when there are no mouse events
available.

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(due to 2.6.6 release candidate freeze)