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Hello dear bots, I've updated my bpo profile to include my github username, I do have a CLA :-)
I did not update the news however. Doing so right now. Thank you lovely bots for reminding me. :-)

I stumbled across this issue today while having the same problem as described inzopefoundation/persistent#42. This PR seems reasonable to me and should fix the problem.
What needs to be done to get it merged into master?

@serhiy-storchaka Thank you for the approval of the PR. What would be the next steps to get it merged?

Thanks@bharel for the PR, and@serhiy-storchaka for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 2.7.
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Thanks@bharel for the PR, and@serhiy-storchaka for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.7.
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Sorry,@bharel and@serhiy-storchaka, I could not cleanly backport this to2.7 due to a conflict.
Please backport usingcherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker f4e1babf44792bdeb0c01da96821ba0800a51fd8 2.7

GH-13423 is a backport of this pull request to the3.7 branch.