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To comply with the 2.x doc style, the methods in trace.rst use brackets around
optional arguments.  The rest is a mostly straight merge, modulo support changed
to test_support and use of the old super call style in test_tuple.

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  r86236 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 03:44:43 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Make sure each test can be run standalone (./python Lib/distutils/tests/x.py)
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  r86240 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 05:11:59 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Prevent ResourceWarnings in test_gettext
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  r86332 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-08 19:15:17 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 4 lines

  Add missing NEWS entry for a fix committed by Senthil.

  All recent modifications to distutils should now be covered in NEWS.
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  r86340 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-08 22:48:23 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  This was actually fixed for the previous alpha.
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  r87271 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 20:09:58 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Improve trace documentation (#9264).  Patch by Eli Bendersky.
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  r87273 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 20:30:15 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Use nested method directives, rewrap long lines, fix whitespace.
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  r87447 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-23 20:13:05 +0100 (jeu., 23 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in superclass method name
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