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r74571 | lars.gustaebel | 2009-08-28 21:23:44 +0200 (Fri, 28 Aug 2009) | 7 lines
Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames.
No longer use tarfile.normpath() on pathnames. Store pathnames
unchanged, i.e. do not remove "./", "../" and "//" occurrences.
However, still convert absolute to relative paths.
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Library
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+- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
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- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.