ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200212

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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2019,2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                 --
+-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   --
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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3431 2020/01/19 02:02:44 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3446 2020/02/12 02:21:21 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +46,31 @@ 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.
 
+20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+       + update release notes
+       + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+
+20200208
+       + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
+         when cross-compiling.
+       + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+       + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
+         to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
+
+20200202
+       + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
+         https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+
+20200201
+       + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
+         collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+       + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
+         terminfo and termcap names.
+       + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+       + update a few comments about tack 1.07
+       + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
+         programs for explain.txt
+
 20200118
        + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
        + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD