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[FYI] NEWS: better distinction between obsolete and obsolescent features


From: Stefano Lattarini
Subject: [FYI] NEWS: better distinction between obsolete and obsolescent features
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:46:37 +0100

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
---
 NEWS | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 76546c7..faf79fd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,7 +11,16 @@ New in 1.14:
     over the same-named automake-provided macro, as defined in file
     '/usr/local/share/aclocal-1.14/vala.m4'.
 
-* Obsolete and obsolescent features:
+* Obsolescent features flagged:
+
+  - Use of the special makefile variable 'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS' is deprecated.
+    To specify locations of extra m4 files, the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' or
+    'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' (the latter introduced with autoconf 2.70)
+    should be used instead.  And use of the '--install' aclocal option in
+    'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS' has proved to be a bad idea anyway -- see automake
+    bug#9037.
+
+* Obsolete features removed:
 
   - Support for the long-deprecated name 'configure.in' for the Autoconf
     input file has been removed altogether.  Just use the modern name
@@ -24,13 +33,6 @@ New in 1.14:
   - Support for the long-obsolete $(INCLUDES) variable has been finally
     removed, in favour of the modern equivalent $(AM_CPPFLAGS).
 
-  - Use of the special makefile variable 'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS' is deprecated.
-    To specify locations of extra m4 files, the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' or
-    'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' (the latter introduced with autoconf 2.70)
-    should be used instead.  And use of the '--install' aclocal option in
-    'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS' has proved to be a bad idea anyway -- see automake
-    bug#9037.
-
 * Removed support for obsolete platforms:
 
   - Support for the SGI C/C++ compilers has been removed: these compilers
-- 
1.8.0.1.409.g252f922




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