ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210703

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3665 2021/05/15 23:59:31 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3680 2021/07/03 19:02:51 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,43 @@ 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.
 
+20210703
+       + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
+         in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
+       + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
+
+20210626
+       + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
+         disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
+       + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
+       + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
+       + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
+       + regenerate man-html documentation.
+
+20210619
+       + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
+         as --with-valgrind
+       + trim trailing blanks from files
+
+20210612
+       + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
+       + update config.guess
+
+20210605
+       + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
+         (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
+
+20210522
+       + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
+         an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+       + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
+         by discussion with Peter Farley).
+       + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+       + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
+         in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
+         report/testcase by Bill Gray)
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
 20210515
        + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
          report/testcase by Bill Gray).
@@ -100,7 +137,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
          accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
          on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
-       + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is 
+       + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
          called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
          pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
          Lutter).