NEWS: improve wording for automake bug#13514 fix

Helped-by: Jack Kelly <jack@jackkelly.name>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 06c012f..6597626 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -127,23 +127,23 @@ New in 1.13.2:
     Automake 1.13, has turned out to be a similarly very bad idea,
     for exactly the same reason.
 
-  - Aclocal no longer error out if the first local m4 directory (as
-    specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or
-    'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it merely report a
-    warning in the 'unsupported' category.  This is done to support
-    some pre-existing real-world usages; refer to automake bug#13514
-    for more details.
+  - aclocal will no longer error out if the first local m4 directory
+    (as specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or
+    'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it will merely report
+    a warning in the 'unsupported' category.  This is done to support
+    some pre-existing real-world usages.  See automake bug#13514.
 
-  - Aclocal no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more than
-    once, even if they are specified multiple times.  This prevents
-    problems in older packages that specify both
+  - aclocal will no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more
+    than once, even if they are specified multiple times.  This ensures
+    packages that specify both
 
         AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])       in configure.ac
         ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4         in Makefile.am
 
-    If the 'm4' directory did not exist when aclocal was called the first
-    time by autoreconf, an error would have ensued with Automake 1.13 and
-    1.13.1.  See automake bug#13514.
+    will work correctly, even when the 'm4' directory contains no
+    package-specific files, but is used only to install third-party
+    m4 files (as can happen with e.g., "libtoolize --install").
+    See automake bug#13514.
 
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