ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180505

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3107 2018/03/31 22:45:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3124 2018/05/05 21:05:04 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,48 @@ 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.
 
+20180505
+       + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
+         versions of tack.
+       + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
+         alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
+         the given graphic character.  This would happen in an older terminal
+         such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
+       + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
+         conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
+       + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
+         for escaping regular expressions.
+
+20180428
+       + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
+         Winter).
+       + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
+         (report by Leon Winter).
+       + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
+               unfocus_current_field (form);
+               form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
+         (patch by Leon Winter).
+
+20180414
+       + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
+         edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
+       + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
+         non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
+       + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
+       + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
+       + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
+         a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
+
+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
@@ -54,6 +96,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + 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