ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170218

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2744 2017/01/29 00:42:37 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2760 2017/02/18 22:23:44 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -38,13 +38,46 @@ Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses).  Changes with
 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
 
-A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
-They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
+A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
+Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
 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.
 
+20170218
+       + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
+       + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
+         explicitly cancelled.  Before this fix, the result was that all were
+         treated as only absent.
+       + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
+         that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
+         e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
+
+20170212
+       + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
+         + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
+         + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
+         + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
+       + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
+         --enable-sp-funcs option.
+       + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
+         without modifying API/ABI.
+       + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
+         similar options for the other libraries.
+
+20170204
+       + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
+         to db-iterator.
+       + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
+         instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
+       + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
+       + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
+         as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
+       + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
+         "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
+       + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
+
 20170128
        + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
        + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD