ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171223

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3021 2017/12/09 22:45:01 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3030 2017/12/23 21:44:36 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,24 @@ 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.
 
+20171223
+       + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
+         PDCurses.
+       + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
+         e.g., if there is a permission problem.
+       + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
+       + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
+         avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
+         if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
+         OpenSuSE #1070450).
+       + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
+
+20171216
+       + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
+       + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
+         for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
+       + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
+
 20171209
        + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
          consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was