Add debian/NEWS to document the keyboard changes

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+zsh (4.3.17-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  This update includes a rewrite of keyboard handling in `/etc/zsh/zshrc'.
+
+  The used method should be quite a bit more robust than the old one, and
+  should work out of the box for every terminal with a working terminfo entry.
+
+  If you do not want Debian's zshrc to mess with your keyboard setup, set the
+  following variable in your `.zshenv' file:
+
+    DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes
+
+  This change also removes the controversial vi-* bindings for the up and down
+  cursor keys (which was reported as #383737 and led to confusion with a
+  substantial number of users). If you want them back use the following snippet
+  in your `.zshrc' file (and without the above variable set):
+
+    for i in viins vicmd; do
+      bindkey -M "$i" "${key[Up]}" vi-up-line-or-history
+      bindkey -M "$i" "${key[Down]}" vi-down-line-or-history
+    done
+    unset i
+
+ -- Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>  Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:28:54 +0100