ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191012

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3376 2019/09/21 23:47:04 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3389 2019/10/12 21:17:50 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


@@ -45,6 +45,32 @@ 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.
 

+20191012
+       + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
+         Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
+       + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
+       + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
+         _nc_find_name_entry.
+       > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
+       + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
+       + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
+       + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
+         mapping (cf: 20060415);
+       + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
+         overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
+
+20191005
+       + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
+         -I and -l options.
+
+20190928
+       + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
+         hack which differed between those files.
+       + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
+       + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
+         test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
+         EINTR (cf: 20180922)
+

 20190921
        + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
          the screen's borders.
 20190921
        + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
          the screen's borders.