diff --git a/ncurses-6.1-patches.tar.bz2 b/ncurses-6.1-patches.tar.bz2
index d3bd5a3..00958be 100644
--- a/ncurses-6.1-patches.tar.bz2
+++ b/ncurses-6.1-patches.tar.bz2
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:07a4a4b7ef4373d244ebcb1a70273cc62120c6aeebb62d269991a0ccbc552445
-size 1285004
+oid sha256:eef95a9bedd2beadf0adb4b9a5260600b21f9c5c078ea699b1cffb51163730fa
+size 1303656
diff --git a/ncurses.changes b/ncurses.changes
index 398fa1e..6e2615c 100644
--- a/ncurses.changes
+++ b/ncurses.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Feb 18 08:56:21 UTC 2019 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Add ncurses patch 20190216
+  + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
+  + add test/demo_tabs program.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 13 17:12:33 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Implement library packaging guideline: split static libraries.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb 11 09:46:34 UTC 2019 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/ncurses.spec b/ncurses.spec
index f6282a4..82f9051 100644
--- a/ncurses.spec
+++ b/ncurses.spec
@@ -215,6 +215,30 @@ Obsoletes:      ncurses-devel-64bit
 This package contains the headers needed to build against
 the ncurses library in its ABI version 6 form.
 
+%package -n ncurses-devel-static
+Summary:        Static libraries for the ncurses6 terminal control library
+License:        MIT
+Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libform.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libformw.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libmenu.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libmenuw.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libncurses++.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libncurses++w.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libncurses.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libncurses.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libncursesw.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libpanel.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libpanelw.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libtic.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libticw.a
+Provides:       ncurses-devel:%{_libdir}/libtinfo.a
+Requires:       ncurses-devel = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description -n ncurses-devel-static
+This package contains the static library files for
+the ncurses library in its ABI version 6 form.
+
 %package -n ncurses5-devel
 Summary:        Development files for the ncurses5 terminal control library
 License:        MIT
@@ -229,6 +253,30 @@ Requires:       ncurses-devel = %{version}-%{release}
 This package contains the headers needed to build against
 the ncurses library in its ABI version 5 form.
 
+%package -n ncurses5-devel-static
+Summary:        Static libraries for the ncurses5 terminal control library
+License:        MIT
+Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libform.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libformw.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libmenu.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libmenuw.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libncurses++.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libncurses++w.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libncurses.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libncurses.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libncursesw.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libpanel.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libpanelw.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libtic.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libticw.a
+Provides:       ncurses5-devel:%{_libdir}/ncurses5/libtinfo.a
+Requires:       ncurses5-devel = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description -n ncurses5-devel-static
+This package contains the static library files for
+the ncurses library in its ABI version 5 form.
+
 %package -n tack
 Summary:        Terminfo action checker
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
@@ -1095,7 +1143,6 @@ popd
 %{_incdir}/*.h
 %{_incdir}/ncurses/*.h
 %{_incdir}/ncursesw/*.h
-%{_libdir}/lib*.a
 %{_libdir}/lib*.so
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*[clmosuw\+].pc
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/ncurses*6-config.1.gz
@@ -1105,6 +1152,9 @@ popd
 %doc %{_mandir}/man3/*.gz
 %doc %{_mandir}/man7/*.gz
 
+%files -n ncurses-devel-static
+%{_libdir}/lib*.a
+
 %files -n ncurses5-devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_bindir}/ncurses*5-config
@@ -1115,11 +1165,13 @@ popd
 %{_incdir}/ncurses5/ncurses/*.h
 %{_incdir}/ncurses5/ncursesw/*.h
 %dir %{_libdir}/ncurses5/
-%{_libdir}/ncurses5/lib*.a
 %{_libdir}/ncurses5/lib*.so
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*5.pc
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/ncurses*5-config.1.gz
 
+%files -n ncurses5-devel-static
+%{_libdir}/ncurses5/lib*.a
+
 %files -n tack
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_bindir}/tack