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 Library
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+- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
+  GNU modes.
+
 - Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
   fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
   statement (bug #1586513).