network/ircII: Updated for version 20210616_2.

Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

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+Notes to self:
+
+wserv and ircio are executed correctly (in the new libexec/ircII dir),
+tested them with the following results:
+
+wserv seems to work fine, in the brief bit of testing I did
+with it (/window create and related commands).
+
+ircio (the -S option) doesn't work with libera.chat: with SSL
+it fails to connect at all, and without SSL it connects but the
+server closes the connection before (or during?) sending the
+MOTD. I thought it might be due to the 4K buffer size in ircio,
+but the MOTD on libera is a lot shorter than that.
+
+I haven't tried other IRC nets with -S, because I don't actually think
+anyone cares about it (other ircII forked clients like BitchX and Epic
+never even included it).
+
+--
+
+The help and support scripts are installed in /usr/share/irc. I
+thought about changing this to /usr/share/ircII, but don't really see
+the point.
+
+--
+
+Compiling with -Wall, we get:
+
+/tmp/SBo/ircii/source/hook.c:292:40: warning: ‘%3.3u’ directive
+output may be truncated writing between 3 and 10 bytes into a region
+of size 4 [-Wformat-truncation=]
+
+On further investigation, it's a bogus warning: yes, 3.3%u could
+produce up to 10 digits... but before line 292, there's code that
+rejects any number above 999. This means sprintf will write 3 bytes of
+digits followed by the terminating \0.
+
+--
+
+We compile with ncurses, not termcap... but the code in term.c uses
+termcap functions. These are actually provided by ncurses doing
+termcap emulation. See curs_termcap(3x). In practice this works fine,
+and lets us use terminals like rxvt-unicode, for which terminfo
+entries exist but are too new to be included in crusty old termcap.