FYI: update branch-1-8 NEWS

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Checking this in.

2004-01-28  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * NEWS: Summarize recent changes.

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.256.2.21
diff -u -r1.256.2.21 NEWS
--- NEWS        12 Jan 2004 23:36:53 -0000      1.256.2.21
+++ NEWS        28 Jan 2004 21:12:40 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,23 @@
 Bug fixed in 1.8.2a:
 
-* Nothing yet.
+* Long standing bugs:
 
+  - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
+    or any of the other *dir variable contain a space.
+
+    Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
+    filenames that are involved during the build.  This change affects
+    only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
+    in packages configured with
+      ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
+
+  - Fix the depfils output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
+    POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+
+* New sections in manual:
+
+  - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
+  - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
 
 Bug fixed in 1.8.2:
 

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz