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+  o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor):
+    - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
+      builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents a
+      conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now ships.
+      Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.