These are the ZODB part of the patches I posted to
http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/655 with an additional import cleanup.
The issue was silent for over 2 weeks.

Also my attempts at subscribing to zodb-dev or sending a message there
dissapeared were doomed;)

I'm fully willing to revert this if someone has an issue with it.

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    r70059 | jinty | 2006-09-08 16:26:44 +0200 (Fri, 08 Sep 2006) | 1 line

    Forgot the NEWS entry. Hope I did it right.
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    r70053 | jinty | 2006-09-08 14:43:26 +0200 (Fri, 08 Sep 2006) | 1 line

    Clean up wierd import dance with ZODB. This is unnecessary since the transaction module stopped being imported in ZODB/__init__.py in rev 39622.
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    r70051 | jinty | 2006-09-08 13:24:45 +0200 (Fri, 08 Sep 2006) | 1 line

    Add the ability to ask a transaction if it has been doomed i.e. isDoomed().
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    r70050 | jinty | 2006-09-08 13:13:06 +0200 (Fri, 08 Sep 2006) | 1 line

    Add the doom() function to transactions. Look at tests/doom.txt for more info.
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