test_send_signal should not hang anymore on various Linux distributions.

reverting partially distutils to its 2.6.x state so 2.7a4 looks more like the 2.7b1 in this. the whole revert will occur after a4 is tagged

Thanks bitdancer and briancurtin for the help.

the fix applied in Issue 7082.

Issue #29.

PR #29 was released in february 2004!

reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.

fatal error in low memory condition.

by Py_DECREF() to avoid a crash in pydebug mode.

Use po->wo==NULL to detect than the panel is in the lop list or not.

to the TarFile class.

by Py_DECREF() to fix a crash in pydebug mode.

check fails.

Fix an assertion in pydebug mode.

method->d2i(): OpenSSL API changed in OpenSSL 0.9.6m. Patch written by Daniel
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