This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the ncurses
library and terminfo utilities. ncurses/terminfo was originally written
by Pavel Curtis and Zeyd M. Ben-Halim <zmbenhal@netcom.com>, and is
currently held by the Free Software Foundation.

Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net> created this package, from sources
found in ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ncurses-4.2.tar.gz.  It
borrows heavily from the original debianization put together by Bruce
Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> and benifitted considerably from a lot of
help from David Engel <david@elo.ods.com>.  Michael Alan Dorman
<mdorman@debian.org> arranged the beast into its present form, and put
a lot of effort into making ncurses fit with Debian in the best way
possible.  His patches for packaging the ill-fated 4.1 release form the
backbone of this version.  The current maintainer is greatly in debt to
his illustrious predecessors.

During Galen's absence, Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>, James Troup
jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk> and J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>
worked on ncurses, resulting in the 1.9.9g-8.8 version that got included in
Debian 2.0.

Ray took the new upstream 4.2 sources and re-did most of the packaging using
the current Debian tools.  I (Galen) finally rejoined the debian world at
this point and used ray's work for the new ncurses 4.2 packages. (Thanks
for picking up the slack for me, guys.  I owe you some beers.)

Changes:
 * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files
 * changed Makefile.in's to compile with -D_REENTRANT
 * changed configure.in to support proper compilation of debugging libraries
 * Fixed tget{flag,num,str} in lib_termcap ("long" strings work now)
 * Added /etc/terminfo directory support (ncurses/read_entry.c)
 * Security fixes for setuid operation (ncurses/read_{entry,termcap}.c)
   (based on patches courtesy of Red Hat)

Changes to terminfo.src:
 * Removed ich(1) from linux, screen, vt320

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