Problem: if two files are assigned the same inode
number by the filesystem, the second one will be added
as a hardlink to the first, which means that the
content will be lost.

The patched code checks if the file's st_nlink is
greater 1. So only for files that actually have several
links pointing to them hardlinks will be created, which
is what GNU tar does.

Will backport.

Backport candidate.

Optimised Placeholders handling of child loggers by using a dict rather than a list (much slower in the pathological case of hundreds of child Loggers to a Placeholder - problem reported by Ryan Blazecka).

by RFC 1642.

browser controller classes.

but verify_valid_flag() wasn't expecting that.  Will backport.

PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() the accept a unicode string as the mapping
argument which is used as a mapping table.

This code isn't used by any of the codecs yet.

from U+FFFD to U+FFFE which is considered more appropriate.  (from
MAL's comment)

which can't be compiled.  Thanks to Mat Martineau for spotting the problem.

open_new_win does not exist.  use UNIX consistently, add autoraise parameter to open().  add versionadded tags to open_new_tab

suppress more errors on my box, most are gentoo specific.  Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANGE is x86_64 specific and the readline memory leaks should be generally applicable

Will backport.