ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231209

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4025 2023/11/04 21:45:02 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,53 @@ 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.
 
+20231209
+       + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks
+         which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description.
+       + remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688).
+       + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+       + updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after
+         bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057541).
+       + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
+
+20231202
+       + correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so
+         that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types.
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables
+         to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231125
+       + add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1
+         (patch by Branden Robinson).
+       + improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering
+         (patches by Branden Robinson).
+       + modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values
+         (report by Branden Robinson).
+
+20231121
+       + amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in
+         waddnstr (Debian #1056340).
+
+20231118
+       + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several
+         manpages:  curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x,
+         curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x,
+         curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x
+       + amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in
+         winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris.
+       + make similar correction to wins_nwstr().
+       + correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr()
+         (Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205).
+
+20231111
+       + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+       + add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended
+         capabilities with the "-u" option.
+       + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages.
+       + fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10.
+       + modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an
+         intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
+
 20231104
        + modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a
          modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek,