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r81663 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-06-03 11:56:22 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 4 lines
Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size
field != 0 by mistake. The associated testcase did not
expose this bug because it was broken too.
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Library
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+- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
+ mistake.
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- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding
with the output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the
tests from 2.x issue 1368247.