[automake-commit] branch master updated: doc: tweak old NEWS about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.

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     new 0901ccdd0 doc: tweak old NEWS about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
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commit 0901ccdd0cb21bfa3911a2668615e388fef94426
Author: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Mar 1 15:03:30 2023 -0800

    doc: tweak old NEWS about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
    
    * NEWS: any ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS deprecation will be in a major
    release (the hypothetical 2.0), not sooner.
    * NEWS-2.0: developers who don't wish to be maintainers are also
    welcome and needed.
---
 NEWS     | 5 ++---
 NEWS-2.0 | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cb325642f..132a33097 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -870,9 +870,8 @@ New in 1.13:
     include directories.  Formerly, one had to specify it with an explicit
     '-I' option to the 'aclocal' invocation.
 
-  - The special make variable ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is deprecated; future
-    Automake versions will warn about its use, and later version will
-    remove support for it altogether.
+  - The special make variable ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS may be deprecated in 
+    a future Automake major release.
 
 * The depcomp script:
 
diff --git a/NEWS-2.0 b/NEWS-2.0
index 511e0531e..71deca625 100644
--- a/NEWS-2.0
+++ b/NEWS-2.0
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-This file (NEWS-2.0) lists several incompatibilities planned for a
+This file (NEWS-2.0) lists several incompatibilities that may happen in a
 future Automake 2.0 release.
 
 However, the (few) current Automake maintainers have insufficient interest
 and energy to pursue the 2.0 release.  We have not even reviewed all
-existing bugs.  New maintainers are needed!  For more information about
-helping with Automake development:
+existing bugs.  New maintainers and developers are needed!  For more
+information about helping with Automake development:
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-03/msg00018.html
 
-Therefore, there is no ETA for Automake 2.0, but it is not likely to be
+Therefore, there is no ETA for Automake 2.0, and it is not likely to be
 any time soon.  So moving these future issues to a separate file seemed
 warranted.  For more info, see the ./PLANS/ directory.