news: some changes for 1.13 has been "de-planned"

* NEWS (Future backward-incompatibilities): The planned Automake release
1.13 already has too much stuff on its plate; so we are not going to
In Automake 1.13, we are definitely not going to change the exact order
in which the directories in the aclocal macro search path are looked up.
Also, experience and user feedback have shown that the "obsolescent"
two-arguments invocation for AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE:

    AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(PACKAGE-NAME, PACKAGE-VERSION)

is still useful (until at least Autoconf is fixed to offer better support
for "dynamically" package versions), so we are not going to remove
support for that usage in Automake 1.13.  For more details, see commit
v1.12.2-245-g2abe183 of 2012-08-24, "AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: allow obsolescent
two-args invocation once again".
(New in 1.12.1): Adjust accordingly.

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

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index caf698f..4377004 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,19 +46,11 @@ New in 1.12.4:
   - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in
     the next major Automake version (1.13).
 
-  - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
-    AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro is deprecated, and will be removed in the
-    next major Automake version (1.13).
-
   - The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably
     be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).  You should
     use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' instead
     (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
 
-  - 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 (1.13).
-
   - The 'missing' script will not try anymore to update the timestamp
     of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
     remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
@@ -173,8 +165,8 @@ New in 1.12.1:
 
   - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
     of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro now elicits a warning in the 'obsolete'
-    category.  Starting from the next major Automake release (1.13), such
-    usages won't be allowed anymore.
+    category.  Starting from some future major Automake release (likely
+    post-1.13), such usages won't be allowed anymore.
 
   - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) is
     now deprecated (its use triggers a warning in the 'obsolete' category).