news: we are going to drop 'cygnus' soonish

* NEWS (Future backward incompatibilities): Support for
"Cygnus-style" trees (so far enabled by the 'cygnus' option)
will be deprecated in the next minor release and removed in
in the next major release.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fd8f38c..2f52ff7 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
   - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in
     the next major Automake version (1.13).
 
+  - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option)
+    will be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1) and
+    removed in the next major version (1.13).
+
   - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
     AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version
     of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13).