ncurses 6.0 - patch 20151017

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2493 2015/09/12 19:52:57 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2509 2015/10/17 22:02:46 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,42 @@ 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.
 
+20151017
+       + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
+         (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
+       + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
+         data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
+         (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
+       > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
+       + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
+       + support building with libtool on OS/2
+       + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
+       + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
+
+20151010
+       + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
+       + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
+       + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
+       + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
+         change.
+       + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
+         fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
+         (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
+
+20150926
+       + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
+         than clean.
+       + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
+       + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
+
+20150919
+       + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
+         stream.
+       + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
+         read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
+       + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
+         configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
+
 20150912
        + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
          William Gallafent).
@@ -1689,7 +1725,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
          path is a directory or file, according to the need.  Checking for
          directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
-       + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+       + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
 
 20120114
        + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on