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Add a little more verbiage about the bsddb module/package change. It's 

clear from recent discussions on c.l.py that people are a bit confused about
the differences between the old bsddb, the new bssdb, the bsddb3/PyBSDDB
package and changes to file formats.  Tried to clarify the issues.
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@ -1266,7 +1266,14 @@ The old version of the module has been renamed to
have to edit \file{Modules/Setup} to enable it. Note that the new
\module{bsddb} package is intended to be compatible with the
old module, so be sure to file bugs if you discover any
incompatibilities.
incompatibilities. When upgrading to Python 2.3, if you also change
the underlying BerkeleyDB library, you will almost certainly have to
convert your database files to the new version. You can do this
fairly easily with the new scripts \file{db2pickle.py} and
\file{pickle2db.py} which you will find in the distribution's
Tools/scripts directory. If you've already been using the PyBSDDB
package, importing it as \module{bsddb3}, you will have to change your
\code{import} statements.
\item The Distutils \class{Extension} class now supports
an extra constructor argument named \var{depends} for listing