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  r60388 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-28 09:44:13 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Revert rev. 59925, it breaks comtypes (I need to further examine this).
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  r60397 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-28 21:34:33 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Make PySet_Add() work with frozensets.
  Works like PyTuple_SetItem() to build-up values in a brand new frozenset.
  Also, PyFrozenSet_New() is now guaranteed to produce a distinct new frozenset.
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  r60398 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-28 22:34:30 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Let marshal built-up sets and frozensets one element at a time (without creating an intermediate tuple).
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  r60399 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-28 22:47:42 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Factor-out common code with a new macro
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  r60400 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-28 22:48:07 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Factor-out common code with a new macro
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  r60401 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-28 22:51:25 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Removed unnecessary conditional (spotted by Neal Norwitz).
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  r60403 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-29 00:21:00 +0100 (Tue, 29 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Disable use of BerkeleyDB 4.6.x to see what the odd platform buildbots
  think.  In particular, neal norwitz has traced an Ubuntu sparc64 crash
  to the Lib/test/bsddb/test_basics.py test when opening a db with DB_THREAD.
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  r60405 | brett.cannon | 2008-01-29 05:13:07 +0100 (Tue, 29 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix the reindent rule to use $(BUILDPYTHON).
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  r60406 | brett.cannon | 2008-01-29 05:18:04 +0100 (Tue, 29 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Update Vim syntax highlighting to specify what revision was used to generate
  the file.
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  r60407 | brett.cannon | 2008-01-29 05:20:56 +0100 (Tue, 29 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Ignore .pyc and .pyo files.
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 92f6f91..4cae0be 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -652,7 +652,10 @@
         # a release.  Most open source OSes come with one or more
         # versions of BerkeleyDB already installed.
 
-        max_db_ver = (4, 6)
+        max_db_ver = (4, 5)  # XXX(gregory.p.smith): 4.6 "works" but seems to
+                             # have issues on many platforms.  I've temporarily
+                             # disabled 4.6 to see what the odd platform
+                             # buildbots say.
         min_db_ver = (3, 3)
         db_setup_debug = False   # verbose debug prints from this script?