ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150822

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2461 2015/07/19 23:55:55 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2487 2015/08/22 23:55:21 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,50 @@ 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.
 
+20150822
+       + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
+         see unused letters.
+       + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
+       + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
+       + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
+       + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
+         ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted by patch by
+         Joshua Root).
+
+20150815
+       + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
+         overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
+       + update release notes in INSTALL.
+       + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
+
+20150810
+       + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
+         releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim).  See
+               http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
+
+20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20150808
+       + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
+       + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
+       + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
+         more than 200 snapshots.
+       + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
+         page.
+
+20150725
+       + updated llib-* files.
+       + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
+       + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
+         Mikhail Peselnik).
+       + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+       + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
+       + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
+         curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
+         curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
+         curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
+         curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
+
 20150719
        + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
        + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
@@ -766,8 +810,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          together initialization- or reset-strings.  The problem dates to
          1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
          gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
-       + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
-         checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
        + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
          checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
          and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and