ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130831

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2078 2013/07/06 20:51:48 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2096 2013/08/31 20:36:47 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,59 @@ 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.
 
+20130831
+       + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
+         attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
+         italics test.
+       + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
+         character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
+       + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
+
+20130824
+       + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
+       + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
+         introduced by Debian #700177.
+       + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
+         was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
+
+20130816
+       + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
+         addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
+         generic_type.
+       + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
+       + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
+         port when tic and other programs are not needed.
+
+20130805
+       + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
+         configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
+         rpm macros.
+       + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
+         cross-compile support packages.
+       + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
+
+20130727
+       + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
+         + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
+         + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
+         + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
+           dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
+         + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
+           rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
+         + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
+           are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
+         + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
+       + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
+         the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
+
+20130720
+       + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
+         initialization of cur_term.
+
+20130713
+       + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
+       + minor compiler-warning fixes
+
 20130706
        + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
        + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
@@ -4647,7 +4700,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
        + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
          require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
-         Koblinger Egmont).
+         Egmont Koblinger).
 
 20031004
        + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.