ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191116

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3396 2019/10/19 21:16:45 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3407 2019/11/16 20:48:27 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,38 @@ 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.
 
+20191116
+       + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
+         to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
+         packages.
+       + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
+         defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
+         from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
+
+20191109
+       + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
+       + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
+         with old non-curses programs -TD
+       + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
+       + use ansi+rep several places -TD
+       + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
+         cf: 20020901).
+
+20191102
+       + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
+       + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
+         (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
+       + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
+       + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
+
+20191026
+       + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
+         line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
+       + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
+         \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
+       + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
+         early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
+
 20191019
        + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
          with address-sanitizer.