news: better visibility for planned backward incompatibilities

* NEWS (New in 1.11.2): Explicitly report that support for
automatic de-ANSI-fication has been deprecated.  Move news
entries about planned backward incompatibilities ...
(New in 1.11.2a): ... here.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 57ccf3f..c12f002 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 2011-12-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
+       news: better visibility for planned backward incompatibilities
+       * NEWS (New in 1.11.2): Explicitly report that support for
+       automatic de-ANSI-fication has been deprecated.  Move news
+       entries about planned backward incompatibilities ...
+       (New in 1.11.2a): ... here.
+
+2011-12-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
        tests: drop unnecessary in 'subpkg.test'
        * tests/subpkg.test ($required): Drop "bison", it is not required
        anymore since commit `v1.11-502-g7e5ae80'.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ec44485..b656d71 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ New in 1.11.2a:
     GNU rx library has been decommissioned), and will be removed in the
     next major Automake release (1.12).
 
+  - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
+    search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
+    next Automake release (1.12).
+
+  - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed
+    in the next major Automake release (1.12).
+
+  - Starting from the next Automake release (1.12), warnings in the
+    `extra-portability' category will be enabled by `-Wall' (right now,
+    one has to use `-Wextra-portability' explicitly).
+
 * Miscellaneous changes:
 
   - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about
@@ -31,22 +42,6 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.2a:
 \f
 New in 1.11.2:
 
-* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
-
-  - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
-    the next major Automake release (1.12).
-
-  - The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
-    removed in the next major Automake release (1.12).
-
-  - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
-    search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
-    next Automake release (1.12).
-
-  - Starting from the next Automake release (1.12), warnings in the
-    `extra-portability' category will be enabled by `-Wall' (right now,
-    one has to use `-Wextra-portability' explicitly).
-
 * Changes to aclocal:
 
   - The `--acdir' option is deprecated.  Now you should use the new options
@@ -59,6 +54,10 @@ New in 1.11.2:
 
 * Miscellaneous changes:
 
+  - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been
+    deprecated.  I will probably be removed in the next major Automake
+    release (1.12).
+
   - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
     is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.