ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210703

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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
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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.
 
 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).
 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.
        + 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).
          called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
          pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
          Lutter).