From 144a61d521d65af7bdc14f1f0808d2f8bac64dd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:47:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ NEWS | 31 +++++++++++++++---------------- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 57ccf3f..c12f002 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ 2011-12-27 Stefano Lattarini + 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 + 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 --- 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: 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. -- 2.7.4