ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180407

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3089 2018/02/24 22:39:32 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,55 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20180407
+       + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
+         not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
+       + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
+         Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
+         interface.  Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
+         interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007). 
+         As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
+         values, e.g., keyname().
+
+20180331
+       + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
+         extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
+         string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
+
+20180324
+       + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
+         0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
+       + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
+       + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
+       + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
+
+20180317
+       + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
+         it should have.
+       + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
+         different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
+       + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+       + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
+         terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
+         by Gyorgy Jeney).
+
+20180303
+       + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
+         avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
+       + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
+       + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
+         verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
+         (report/patch by Werner Fink).
+       + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
+         on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
+         better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
+       + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
+         for threads to make the report more readable.  Reorganized the
+         structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
+       + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
+       + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
+         how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
+
 20180224
        + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
          a "use=" clause of extended capabilities.  The problem was seen in a