Fedora 18 Update: ncurses-5.9-10.20130413.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-5743
2013-04-15 23:17:09
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Name        : ncurses
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 5.9
Release     : 10.20130413.fc18
URL         : http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html
Summary     : Ncurses support utilities
Description :
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
updating character screens with reasonable optimization.  The ncurses
(new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the
discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.

This package contains support utilities, including a terminfo compiler
tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion
tool captoinfo.

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Update Information:

This update adds C++ shared libraries, modifies clear to clear the scrollback buffer and includes the latest upstream bugfixing patch.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Apr 15 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5.9-10.20130413
- update to 20130413
* Mon Mar 18 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5.9-9.20130316
- update to 20130316
- include shared ncurses C++ libraries (#911540)
* Wed Jan 30 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5.9-8.20130126
- update to 20130126
- clear scrollback buffer in clear (#815790)
- make -base and -term subpackages noarch
- make some dependencies arch-specific
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #815790 - [RFE-privacy] clear the console
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815790
  [ 2 ] Bug #911540 - ncurses C++ dynamic library missing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911540
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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