Changelog for libncurses6-6.2.20210116-lp153.14.19.x86_64.rpm :

* Wed Jan 20 2021 Andreas Schwab - Don\'t skip test for qemu builds
* Mon Jan 18 2021 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20210116 + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1, adding \"-g\" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
* Mon Jan 11 2021 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20210109 + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates. + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of autoconf 2.52.20210105- Add ncurses patch 20210102 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include which declares exit_terminfo. + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is defined in , and remove it from the list of prototypes (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon). + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that is required for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031). + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for consistency with other manpages.- Add ncurses patch 20201227 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.- Add ncurses patch 20201219 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3. + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report by Chris Bennett).- Port patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Dec 14 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201212 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
* Mon Dec 07 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201205 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking gprbuild (cf: 20200627). + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen. + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin Abendroth). + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout (patch by Benno Schulenberg). + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
* Mon Nov 30 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201128 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr). + add rep to PuTTY -TD + add putty+keypad -TD + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217). + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its - std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS, do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
* Mon Nov 23 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201121 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang (report by Steven Pitman).
* Mon Nov 16 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201114 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver. + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the special case where short extended capability strings were not converted from terminfo to termcap format. + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
* Mon Nov 09 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201107 + update kitty+common -TD + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron). + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
* Mon Nov 02 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201031 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include before (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas). + improve format of output in tic\'s check_infotocap() function, to ensure that the messages contain only printable text. + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments is supported. IBM\'s xlclang does not support it (report by Steven Pitman).
* Wed Oct 28 2020 Ludwig Nussel - install to /usr (boo#1029961)
* Mon Oct 26 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Disable usage of libbsd as this one is not in bootstrap image
* Mon Oct 26 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201024 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling. + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with Herlim\'s test data using address-sanitizer. + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check, needed in to tic\'s use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim) + improve tic\'s -c option to validate the number and type of parameters and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim). + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.- Update to tack 1.9 (patch 20200220)
* sysdep.c: gcc-warning
* tack.c: fix gcc warning for non-ncurses configuration
* init.c: zero-out the debug/log-pointers after closing them
* tack.1: add -d option, for debug.log
* output.c: use debug.log to record putp\'s and tput\'s which hint at the testing done
* sysdep.c: use debug.log to record when the tty is set/reset
* tack.h: split-out log_chr and log_str
* tack.c: add -d option, for debug.log
* tack.1, tack.c, tack.h: add -l option
* tack.c: eliminate a confusing comparison for the logging-menu-entry state by using #define\'d strings for that and the hex-output menu.
* tack.c: use getopt
* fun.c, crum.c, edit.c: fix coverity warning about copying into fixed-size buffer
* tack.c: do a sanity-check on $TERM
* aclocal.m4: resync with my-autoconf
* configure: regen
* aclocal.m4: split-out CF__CURSES_DATA to simplify ifdef\'s
* configure: regen- Use libbsd which provides strlcpy as well as strlcat to avoid reinvent common BSD standard and string functions- Let makedepend find standard header files even if not below /usr/include
* Thu Oct 22 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201017 + improve manpage typography. + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display nonprintable characters. + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
* Mon Oct 12 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201010 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154, ncrvt100an -TD + improve tic\'s check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by discussion with Florian Weimer). + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen Pfeifer).
* Tue Oct 06 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20201003 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter). + change tmux\'s kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas). + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370) + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for checking consistency with tic.
* Mon Sep 28 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200926 + correct configure-check for gnurx library. + regenerate llib-
* files. + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for panel- and user-pointers.
* Tue Sep 22 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200919 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD- Add ncurses patch 20200918 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
* Tue Sep 15 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200912 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64. + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration. + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).- Add ncurses patch 20200907 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by Soren Tempel).- Add ncurses patch 20200906 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of win32-driver. + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
* Tue Sep 01 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200831 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner Fink).- Drop workaround patch awk-scripts.patch as now upstream fixed
* Mon Aug 31 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add patch awk-scripts.patch as workaround for patch 20200829
* Mon Aug 31 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200829 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for \"Maarten Anonymous\". + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of win32-driver. + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on mawk and lynx). > errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + correct icl6404 csr + correct ti916 cup + improve ndr9500- Refresh patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Aug 24 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200822 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the man_db.renames file. + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function (report by Yue Tai). + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker). + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same \"-shared\" option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
* Wed Aug 19 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Disable wgetch-events as it is deprecated and breaks build of other packages
* Tue Aug 18 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200817 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation warnings. + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated. + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds using the string-hacks option. + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
* Mon Aug 17 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200816 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool\'s absence (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808). + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++ (discussion with \"Maarten Anonymous\").
* Tue Aug 11 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200808 + improve discussion of the system\'s tic utility when used as part of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and - -with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW. + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with MinGW.
* Mon Aug 03 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200801 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006). + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration (discussion with \"Maarten Anonymous\"). + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses\' definition of KEY_EVENTS to reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings. + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
* Mon Jul 27 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200725 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by \"Maarten Anonymous\") + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT. + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by Florian Weimer).
* Mon Jul 20 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200718 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual Studio C++. + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++. > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (reports/patches by \"Maarten Anonymous\") + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling the main program, so the linker can find related objects. + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link. + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
* Mon Jul 13 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200711 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo Bruckl). + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (reports/patches by \"Maarten Anonymous\") + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + update length of strings in infocmp\'s usage function to restore a trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
* Tue Jul 07 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200704 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by \"Maarten Anonymous\"): + adjust headers/declarations to provide for \"dllimport\" vs \"dllexport\" declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
* Mon Jun 29 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200627 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with gprbuild. + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
* Mon Jun 22 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Run ldconfig local on %buildroot %_lib to get links done (boo#1173222)
* Mon Jun 15 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200613 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian [#961097]).- Add ncurses patch 20200606 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron). + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron). + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
* Tue Jun 02 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200531 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x + re-enable \"bel\" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang) + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron). + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes. + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters (report/testcase by \"puppet-meteor\"). + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c\'s save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier (report/testcase by \"puppet-meteor\"). + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed string in infotocap (report/testcase by \"puppet-meteor\").
* Mon May 25 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200523 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502) + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma). + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the generated pkg-config and ncurses
*-config files, to simplify configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg). > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by \"Maarten Anonymous\"): + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker options into Visual Studio\'s dialect. + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
* Mon May 18 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200516 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
* Mon May 11 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200509 + add \"-r\" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting a performance comparison. + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
* Mon May 04 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200502 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert those to position reports.
* Mon Apr 27 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200425 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD + fix a typo in tput.1; \"columns\" should be \"cols\".
* Mon Apr 20 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200418 + improve tracemunch logic for \"RUN\" compaction. + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg). + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD + improve see-also section of user_caps.5- Add ncurses patch 20200411 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs() (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812). + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
* Tue Apr 07 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add check for wide character support in libncursesw
* Mon Apr 06 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Use %() to extract patch date for adding it to version
* add script get_version_number.sh which is used within the spec file to determine the actual patch version date
* Mon Apr 06 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200404 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++ > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by \"Maarten Anonymous\"): + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio C++ preprocessor limitations. + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
* Mon Mar 30 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200328 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field(). + remove \"$(srcdir)/\" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
* Mon Mar 23 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200321 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables. + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg). + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for a corresponding demo of dup_field().
* Mon Mar 16 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200314 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for and + add history note to curs_printw.3x for and + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding
* Mon Mar 09 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200308 + update copyright notices in test-packages. + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table. + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
* Tue Mar 03 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200301 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the background character, because it may be used in cases where the corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte, cf: 20181208).
* Sun Mar 01 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200229 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode\'s c99 \"-W\" option, which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options. > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by \"Maarten Anonymous\"): + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc\'s variable length array feature. + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in + use configured check for in a couple of places + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c, because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration. + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
* Mon Feb 24 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200222 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when building out-of-tree. + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in
*/Makefile.in + add \"check\" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers include all of the required headers for the types used.
* Mon Feb 17 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200215 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability section as well as documenting error-returns. + show tic\'s version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725). + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
* Wed Feb 12 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Update to ncurses 6.2 (patch 20200212)
* Add 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + update release notes + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
* Add ncurses patch20200208 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result when cross-compiling. + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin\'s linker is broken. + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used, to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
* Add ncurses patch20200202 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
* Add ncurses patch20200201 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in collision handling for Caps-hpux11 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for terminfo and termcap names. + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit(). + update a few comments about tack 1.07 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt- Update to tack 1.9 (patch 20200202)
* Update copyright and license. Also, portability fixes.- Adopt patch ncurses-5.7-tack.dif- Adopt patch ncurses-6.1.dif which is now ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Jan 20 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200118 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages. + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by Christian Durr) -TD + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
* Mon Jan 13 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200111 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header, to accommodate recent MacOS changes. + suppress gcc\'s -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time + update config.guess, config.sub
* Tue Jan 07 2020 Dr. Werner Fink - Add ncurses patch 20200104 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to \"work\", to help illustrate discussion in https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html + fix some warnings from autoheader-252- Correct include path for ncursesw5 and co