ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190309

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3270 2019/02/03 01:19:58 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3286 2019/03/09 21:35:49 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,35 @@ 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.
 
+20190309
+       + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
+         capabilities in tic.
+       + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
+         data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
+
+20190302
+       + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
+       + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
+         user-defined capabilities.
+       + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
+         called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
+
+20190223
+       + fix typo in adds200 -TD
+       + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
+       + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
+         xt, tbc and hts as clues.
+       + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
+         tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
+
+20190216
+       + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
+       + add test/demo_tabs program.
+
+20190209
+       + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
+         parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
+
 20190202
        + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
          with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
@@ -9370,7 +9399,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 20000701 pre-release
        + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
        + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
-         $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+         $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
        + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
        + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
          several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating