All of these are descendants of the issue 6267 patch (r73638), which was
an enhancement patch and thus blocked from backport (even though it may
have contained a couple fixes...)

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  r73819 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-03 19:07:07 -0400 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6381
  some platforms may raise ENOTCONN if the stack has disconnected the socket on behalf of the peer.
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  r73821 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-03 19:26:02 -0400 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6267
  Incorrect exception handling for xmlrp client retry
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  r73822 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-03 19:29:50 -0400 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6267
  Incorrect exception handling for xmlrpc client retry
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  r73877 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-07 05:01:34 -0400 (Tue, 07 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6382
  added the shutdown_request() which can perform shutdown before calling close.  This is needed for the ForkingMixIn because different close semantics are required for child and parent process.  shutdown_request(), for TCP servers, calls socket.shutdown() and then calls close_request().  Therefore, this is not an backwards incompatible change, since subclasses that continue to override close_request() continue to work.
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  r73986 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-12 18:42:08 -0400 (Sun, 12 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6267
  Add more tests for the xlmrpc.ServerProxy
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  r74098 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-19 18:14:00 -0400 (Sun, 19 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6499
  zlib/gzip may not be present for all builds.  Make xmlrpclib gracefully not supporg gzip encoding in this case
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  r74100 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-19 18:35:44 -0400 (Sun, 19 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6499
  gzip.GzipFile may not exist as a parent class
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  r76798 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 11:29:16 -0600 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  make StringIO like other file objects in that readline(-1) has no effect #7348
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  r76799 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 11:31:31 -0600 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  add NEWS note
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  r76794 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 10:36:53 -0600 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  fix the ignoring of __cmp__ method on metaclasses #7491
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  r76791 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-12-13 17:18:14 +0100 (dim., 13 déc. 2009) | 5 lines

  Add NEWS entry as per RDM's suggestion (the bug was actually present
  in 2.7 alpha 1)
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  r76785 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 08:18:08 -0600 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  add 2.6.x point releases
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  r76780 | lars.gustaebel | 2009-12-13 12:32:27 +0100 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 21 lines

  Issue #7357: No longer suppress fatal extraction errors by
  default.

  TarFile's errorlevel argument controls how errors are
  handled that occur during extraction. There are three
  possible levels 0, 1 and 2. If errorlevel is set to 1 or 2
  fatal errors (e.g. a full filesystem) are raised as
  exceptions. If it is set to 0, which is the default value,
  extraction errors are suppressed, and error messages are
  written to the debug log instead. But, if the debug log is
  not activated, which is the default as well, all these
  errors go unnoticed.

  The original intention was to imitate GNU tar which tries
  to extract as many members as possible instead of stopping
  on the first error. It turns out that this is no good
  default behaviour for a tar library. This patch simply
  changes the default value for the errorlevel argument from
  0 to 1, so that fatal extraction errors are raised as
  EnvironmentError exceptions.
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  r76774 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-12 18:54:15 -0600 (Sat, 12 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  account for PyObject_IsInstance's new ability to fail
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  r76763 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-12-12 20:13:08 +0100 (sam., 12 déc. 2009) | 7 lines

  Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
  in the middle of populating a tuple.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.

  (note: no NEWS entry for trunk since the bug was introduced in 2.7/3.1)
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This merge changes the test harness to manually do the socket
shutdown that was made automatic in trunk by enhancement patch r73638
(issue 6267).  Patch modification by Scott Dial.

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  r76726 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-09 10:15:31 -0500 (Wed, 09 Dec 2009) | 6 lines

  Issue 5949: fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is
  missing proper end-of-line termination.  Patch and tests by
  Scott Dial.  The new tests include a test harness which will
  make it easier to add additional tests.
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  r76727 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-09 11:41:39 -0500 (Wed, 09 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  Skip new imaplib SSL tests if ssl is not available.
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  r76755 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-11 17:29:33 +0000 (Fri, 11 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #3366:  Add lgamma function to math module.
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  r76750 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-10 20:29:53 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  using an existing file to avoid dealing with a sleep to test file ages
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  r76746 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-10 16:29:03 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  added test coverage for distutils.dep_util, and cleaned up the module
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  r76740 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-10 10:36:32 +0000 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) | 8 lines

  Replace the size check for PyMem_MALLOC and PyMem_REALLOC with an almost
  equivalent[*] check that doesn't produce compiler warnings about a 'x < 0'
  check on an unsigned type.

  [*] it's equivalent for inputs of type size_t or Py_ssize_t, or any smaller
  unsigned or signed integer type.
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  r76738 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-12-10 11:27:09 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) | 6 lines

  Fix an issue with the detection of a non-existing SDK
  on OSX. Without this patch it wasn't possible after all
  to compile extensions on OSX 10.6 with the binary
  installer unless the user had installed the (non-default)
  10.4u SDK.
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from the Python.app bundle on OSX.

This fixes Issue7437, the documentation contained filenames that
broke the installer on OSX 10.3.

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  r76708 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-12-08 16:40:51 +0100 (mar., 08 déc. 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
  wrong parameter types.  Patch by Victor Stinner.
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  r76704 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-08 10:39:51 +0100 (Tue, 08 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  removed the usage of rfc822 in favor of email.message.Message
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  r76702 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-08 09:56:49 +0100 (Tue, 08 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata so we can read back PKG-INFO files
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  r76684 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-06 10:22:40 +0100 (Sun, 06 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #1923: make sure we don't strip meaningful whitespace in PKG-INFO Description field
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  r76668 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-04 11:30:16 +0000 (Fri, 04 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Add missing issue number in Misc/NEWS entry.
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  r76665 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-04 11:24:38 +0000 (Fri, 04 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  Avoid undefined behaviour due to overflow in i_divmod (Objects/intobject.c).
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  r76659 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-03 18:57:59 -0500 (Thu, 03 Dec 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue 7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
  file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
  user running the tests.
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  r76651 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-12-03 21:53:51 +0100 (Do, 03 Dez 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building
  extensions with msvc9compiler.
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  r76648 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-03 12:08:56 +0000 (Thu, 03 Dec 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #6985:  number of range() items should be constrained to lie
  in a Py_ssize_t, not an int.
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  r76632 | eric.smith | 2009-12-02 12:43:06 -0500 (Wed, 02 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #4482: Add tests for special float value formatting.
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  r76629 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-02 17:33:41 +0000 (Wed, 02 Dec 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7406:  Fix some occurrences of potential signed overflow in int
  arithmetic.
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  r76603 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-11-30 21:14:25 +0000 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  Update project file for new file: dtoa.c
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  r76605 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-30 21:51:30 +0000 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009) | 2 lines

  Add dtoa.c and dtoa.h to the relevant project files.
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  r76588 | tarek.ziade | 2009-11-29 23:20:30 +0100 (Sun, 29 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #7408: dropped group ownership checking because it relies on os-specific rules
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  r76583 | eric.smith | 2009-11-29 12:40:57 -0500 (Sun, 29 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #3382: Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper case. Much of the patch came from Mark Dickinson.
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  r76575 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-28 16:32:27 +0000 (Sat, 28 Nov 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #1678380: When distinguishing between -0.0 and 0.0 in
  compiler_add_o, use copysign instead of examining the first and last
  bytes of the double.  The latter method fails for little-endian
  ARM, OABI, where doubles are little-endian but with the words swapped.
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  r76568 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-28 13:13:13 +0000 (Sat, 28 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  Multiprocessing configure checks don't need LIBM
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  r76432 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-20 19:30:22 +0000 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #7272:  Add configure test to detect whether sem_open works
  properly, and use this to skip test_multiprocessing on platforms
  where sem_open raises a signal.  This should fix some FreeBSD buildbot
  failures for test_multiprocessing.
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  r76558 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-28 10:44:20 +0000 (Sat, 28 Nov 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #7272, continued:  don't re-use existing HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES
  to indicate that semaphores aren't available;  define a new variable
  POSIX_SEMAPHORES_NOT_ENABLED instead.
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  r76561 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-28 12:30:36 +0000 (Sat, 28 Nov 2009) | 5 lines

  Include ieeefp.h (when available) in pyport.h instead of individually in
  Objects/floatobject.c and Objects/complexobject.c.  This should silence
  compiler warnings about implicit declaration of the 'finite' function
  on Solaris.
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