ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220129

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--- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                 --
+-- Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey                                 --
 -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   --
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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3753 2021/12/04 23:03:57 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3774 2022/01/30 01:11:51 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,45 @@ 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.
 
+20220129
+       + minor updates for test-packages
+       + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
+         case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
+         colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
+         cf: 20211113).
+       + update kitty -TD
+
+20220122
+       + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
+       + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
+         does not exist.
+       + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
+         format-warnings.
+       + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
+         infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
+
+20220115
+       + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
+         state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
+         Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
+       + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
+
+20220101
+       + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
+         curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+
+20211225
+       + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
+         (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+20211219
+       + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
+         script to invoke those.
+       + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
+
+20211211
+       + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
+
 20211204
        + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).