ncurses 6.3 - patch 20221210

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3860 2022/09/24 20:40:35 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3887 2022/12/11 00:21:55 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,72 @@ 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.
 
+20221210
+       + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs.
+       + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot").
+       + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5).
+       + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5).
+
+20221203
+       + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use
+         getopt.
+       + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix
+         a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+       + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections
+         to example programs.
+
+20221126
+       + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201).
+       + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121).
+       + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html
+       + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages
+
+20221119
+       + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no
+         gprbuild package is available.
+       + updated test packages for Debian.
+
+20221112
+       + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package.
+
+20221105
+       + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009
+       + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression
+         (prompted by discussion with Sam James).
+       + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable.
+
+20221029
+       + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report
+         by Bill Gray).
+
+20221023
+       + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
+         with the extra-suffix configure option.
+
+20221015
+       + fix another memory-leak in tic.
+       + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for
+         Ada95 with Arch; as noted in
+         https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html
+         there are unaddressed issues.
+       + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32,
+         x32 (report by Sven Joachim):
+       + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev,
+         cf: 20220813).
+
+20221008
+       + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test
+         builds with ABI=7.
+       + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library
+         directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an
+         install (report by Michal Liszcz).
+
+20221001
+       + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8
+         (report by Sam James).
+       + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to
+         get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson)
+
 20220924
        + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler
          works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g.,