ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210821

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3671 2021/06/05 23:45:46 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3698 2021/08/21 23:25:57 tom Exp $

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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started


@@ -46,6 +46,82 @@ 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.
 
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 

+20210821
+       + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
+         SVr4 terminfo.
+       + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
+       + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
+       + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
+       + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
+         error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
+       + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
+         SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
+       + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
+         by Florian Weimer) -TD
+       + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
+       + update config.sub
+
+20210814
+       + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
+
+20210807
+       + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
+         adapted from "distr1" patch.
+       + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
+
+20210731
+       + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
+         but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
+       + add foot and foot-direct -TD
+
+20210724
+       + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
+         ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+       + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
+
+20210718
+       + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
+         against Glink manual -TD
+       + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
+         vt220 entry -TD
+       + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
+         (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
+       + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
+         who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
+       + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
+         curses structs.
+
+20210710
+       + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
+         which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
+       + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
+         Jansen).
+       + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
+         the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
+       + update config.sub
+
+20210703
+       + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
+         in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
+       + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
+
+20210626
+       + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
+         disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
+       + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
+       + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
+       + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
+       + regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20210619
+       + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
+         as --with-valgrind
+       + trim trailing blanks from files
+
+20210612
+       + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
+       + update config.guess
+

 20210605
        + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
          (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
 20210605
        + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
          (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).


@@ -115,7 +191,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
          accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
          on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
        + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
          accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
          on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.

-       + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is 
+       + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is

          called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
          pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
          Lutter).
          called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
          pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
          Lutter).