ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121102

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1967 2012/10/27 22:04:27 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1971 2012/11/03 23:02:35 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,23 @@ 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.
 
+20121102
+       + realign these related pages:
+           curs_add_wchstr.3x
+           curs_addchstr.3x
+           curs_addstr.3x
+           curs_addwstr.3x
+         and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
+         length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
+         (report by Reuben Thomas).
+       + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
+       + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
+       + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
+       + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
+         based on testing with tack -TD
+       + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
+         starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
+
 20121026
        + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
          #866989).