Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/standard/StandardPostingsReader.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/standard/StandardPostingsReader.java	(revision 1050777)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/standard/StandardPostingsReader.java	(working copy)
@@ -535,9 +535,8 @@
       if (posPendingCount > freq) {
         position = 0;
         while(posPendingCount != freq) {
-          if ((proxIn.readByte() & 0x80) == 0) {
-            posPendingCount--;
-          }
+          proxIn.readVInt();
+          posPendingCount--;
         }
       }
 
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/BufferedIndexInput.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/BufferedIndexInput.java	(revision 1050777)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/BufferedIndexInput.java	(working copy)
@@ -144,6 +144,68 @@
     }
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public short readShort() throws IOException {
+    if (2 <= (bufferLength-bufferPosition)) {
+      return (short) (((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xFF) <<  8) |  (buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xFF));
+    } else {
+      return super.readShort();
+    }
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public int readInt() throws IOException {
+    if (4 <= (bufferLength-bufferPosition)) {
+      return ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xFF) << 24) | ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xFF) << 16)
+        | ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xFF) <<  8) |  (buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xFF);
+    } else {
+      return super.readInt();
+    }
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public long readLong() throws IOException {
+    if (8 <= (bufferLength-bufferPosition)) {
+      final int i1 = ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff) << 24) | ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff) << 16) |
+        ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff) << 8) | (buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff);
+      final int i2 = ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff) << 24) | ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff) << 16) |
+        ((buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff) << 8) | (buffer[bufferPosition++] & 0xff);
+      return (((long)i1) << 32) | (i2 & 0xFFFFFFFFL);
+    } else {
+      return super.readLong();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int readVInt() throws IOException {
+    if (5 <= (bufferLength-bufferPosition)) {
+      byte b = buffer[bufferPosition++];
+      int i = b & 0x7F;
+      for (int shift = 7; (b & 0x80) != 0; shift += 7) {
+        b = buffer[bufferPosition++];
+        i |= (b & 0x7F) << shift;
+      }
+      return i;
+    } else {
+      return super.readVInt();
+    }
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public long readVLong() throws IOException {
+    if (9 <= bufferLength-bufferPosition) {
+      byte b = buffer[bufferPosition++];
+      long i = b & 0x7F;
+      for (int shift = 7; (b & 0x80) != 0; shift += 7) {
+        b = buffer[bufferPosition++];
+        i |= (b & 0x7FL) << shift;
+      }
+      return i;
+    } else {
+      return super.readVLong();
+    }
+  }
+  
   private void refill() throws IOException {
     long start = bufferStart + bufferPosition;
     long end = start + bufferSize;
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/DataInput.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/DataInput.java	(revision 1050777)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/DataInput.java	(working copy)
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
    * supported.
    * @see DataOutput#writeVInt(int)
    */
-  public final int readVInt() throws IOException {
+  public int readVInt() throws IOException {
     byte b = readByte();
     int i = b & 0x7F;
     for (int shift = 7; (b & 0x80) != 0; shift += 7) {
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
   /** Reads a long stored in variable-length format.  Reads between one and
    * nine bytes.  Smaller values take fewer bytes.  Negative numbers are not
    * supported. */
-  public final long readVLong() throws IOException {
+  public long readVLong() throws IOException {
     byte b = readByte();
     long i = b & 0x7F;
     for (int shift = 7; (b & 0x80) != 0; shift += 7) {
Index: lucene/MIGRATE.txt
===================================================================
--- lucene/MIGRATE.txt	(revision 1050777)
+++ lucene/MIGRATE.txt	(working copy)
@@ -324,7 +324,3 @@
   The other way round MTQ.TopTermsBooleanQueryRewrite supplys a
   global AttributeSource to each segments TermsEnum. The TermsEnum is consumer
   and gets the current minimum competitive boosts (MTQ.MaxNonCompetitiveBoostAttribute).
-
-* LUCENE-2761: DataInput.readVInt/readVLong and DataOutput.writeVInt/writeVLong
-  are final. If you subclassed this code before to encode variable-length
-  integers in some specialized way, use the Codec API instead.