NEWS: minor fixlets, re-wording, and better text wrapping

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

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 546d78c..d540aab 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     (the one that has until now been labelled as '1.14') will actually
     become "Automake 2.0".  Automake 1.14 will be the next minor version,
     which will introduce new features, deprecations and bug fixes, but
-    no real backward incompatibility.
+    no serious backward incompatibility.
 
   - See discussion about automake bug#13578 for more details and
     background: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13578>
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@
     to retire support for them in December 2013:
     <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html>
 
-  - Future versions of Automake might remove support for MS-DOS and
-    Windows 95/98/ME (support for them was offered by relying on the
-    DJGPP project).  Note however that both Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW on
-    modern Windows versions will continue to be fully supported.
+  - Automake 2.0 will remove support for MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME
+    (support for them was offered by relying on the DJGPP project).
+    Note however that both Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW on modern Windows
+    versions will continue to be fully supported.
 
   - Automake-provided scripts and makefile recipes might (finally!)
     start assuming a POSIX shell in Automake 2.0.
@@ -101,18 +101,19 @@ New in 1.13.3:
 
 * Bugs fixed:
 
-  - Byte-compilation of Emacs lisp files could fail spuriously on Solaris,
-    when /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh were used as shell.
+  - Byte-compilation of Emacs lisp files could fail spuriously on
+    Solaris,  when /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh were used as shell.
 
-  - The same user-defined suffix being transformed into different
-    Automake-known suffixes in different Makefiles could confuse automake
-    and make it generate inconsistent Makefiles (automake bug#14441).
-    For example, if 'Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.cc:" suffix rule, and
-    'sub/Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.c:" suffix rule, automake would
-    have mistakenly put into 'Makefile.in' rules to compile *.c files
-    into object files, and into 'sub/Makefile.in' rules to compile *.cc
-    files into object files --- rather than the other way around.
-    This is now fixed.
+  - If the same user-defined suffixes were transformed into different
+    Automake-known suffixes in different Makefile.am files in the same
+    project, automake could get confused and generate inconsistent
+    Makefiles (automake bug#14441).
+    For example, if 'Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.cc:" suffix rule,
+    and 'sub/Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.c:" suffix rule, automake
+    would have mistakenly placed into 'Makefile.in' rules to compile
+    "*.c" files into object files, and into 'sub/Makefile.in' rules to
+    compile "*.cc" files into object files --- rather than the other
+    way around.  This is now fixed.
 
 * Testsuite work:
 
@@ -125,16 +126,16 @@ New in 1.13.3:
     'run_make', and several related changes.  These serve a two-fold
     purpose:
 
-      1. Removing brittleness due to the use of "make -e" in test cases.
+     1. Remove brittleness due to the use of "make -e" in test cases.
 
-      2. Seamlessly allowing the use of parallel make ("make -j...") in
-         the test cases, even where redirection of make output is involved
-         (see automake bug#11413 for a description of the subtle issues in
-         this area).
+     2. Seamlessly allow the use of parallel make ("make -j...") in the
+        test cases, even where redirection of make output is involved
+        (see automake bug#11413 for a description of the subtle issues
+        in this area).
 
-  - Few spurious failures have been fixed (they hit especially MinGW/MSYS).
-    See automake bugs #14493, #14494, #14495, #14498, #14499, #14500 and
-    #14501.
+  - Several spurious failures have been fixed (they hit especially
+    MinGW/MSYS builds).  See automake bugs #14493, #14494, #14495,
+    #14498, #14499, #14500, #14501, #14517 and #14528.
 
   - Some other minor miscellaneous changes and fixlets.