- Add ncurses patch 20240922
  + add a few null-pointer checks in ncurses
  + improve test-driver in ncurses/link_test.c
  + restore background character in manpages as described in X/Open
    Curses section 3.3.6, and add option "-c" to test programs to
    illustrate a non-blank character in the window background property.
  + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
  + modify ncurses*-config to add -I option in --cflag where needed for
    --disable-overwrite to match ".pc" files.
  + disallow directories and block/character devices in safe-open.
  + amend scr_restore() and scr_init() to remove the target window only
    after validating the source window which will replace the target
    (report by Zixi Liu).

- Add ncurses patch 20240914
  + modify _nc_flush() to also flush stderr to help the flash capability
    to work in bash (patch by Harm te Hennepe, cf: 20201128)
  + omit -g and -fXXX flags from CFLAGS in misc/ncurses-config.in
  + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
  + improve examples in NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
  + update comments in terminfo.src -TD

- Add ncurses patch 20240831
  + build-fix for a case in msys2 where gettimeofday() was available but
    the fallback was partly configured.
  > patch by Rafael Kitover:
  + separate the _NC_WINDOWS platform macro into _NC_WINDOWS_NATIVE,
    for MinGW and other native Win32 support, and _NC_WINDOWS, to make
    some Win32 features available under the Cygwin runtime, in this case
    the term-driver.

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