[PATCH] NEWS: wording and quoting fixlets in few older entries

[Stefano Lattarini]

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
---
 NEWS | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index aaa3ad3..d0bc122 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ New in 1.12.5:
     use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' instead
     (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
 
-  - The 'missing' script will not try anymore to update the timestamp
+  - The 'missing' script will no longer try 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     of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be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
     of it).  In fact, starting from Automake 1.13, all it'll do will be
@@ -88,9 +88,8 @@ New in 1.12.3:
 
 * Miscellaneous changes:
 
-  - The '.m4' files provided by Automake does not define serial numbers
-    anymore.  This should cause no difference in the behaviour of aclocal
-    though.
+  - The '.m4' files provided by Automake no longer define serial numbers.
+    This should cause no difference in the behaviour of aclocal though.
 
   - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
 
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ 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 some future major Automake release (likely
-    post-1.13), such usages won't be allowed anymore.
+    post-1.13), such usages will be no longer allowed.
 
   - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) is
     now deprecated (its use triggers a warning in the 'obsolete' category).
@@ -197,8 +196,8 @@ New in 1.12.1:
 * Miscellaneous changes:
 
   - The Automake test cases now require a proper POSIX-conforming shell.
-    Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) won't be
-    accepted anymore.  In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify
+    Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) will be no
+    longer accepted.  In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify
     such POSIX shell explicitly, since it will be looked up at configure
     time.  Still, when this lookup fails, or when the user wants to
     override its conclusion, the variable 'AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL' can be
@@ -309,7 +308,7 @@ New in 1.12:
     the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script
     into their tree.  The second, and more important, implication is that
     now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can
-    not be used anymore to define a test runner, and the command specified
+    no longer be used to define a test runner, and the command specified
     in LOG_COMPILER (and <ext>_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable
     program or script.  For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit
     a little contorted):
@@ -322,7 +321,7 @@ New in 1.12:
         fi;
       LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit
 
-    while this is not anymore:
+    OTOH, this is no longer a valid usage:
 
       TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
         $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' && echo ' -e'`
@@ -423,9 +422,9 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.12:
   - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
     conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
 
-  - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness does not fail anymore
-    with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in a
-    subdirectory, like in:
+  - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness no longer fails
+    with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in
+    a subdirectory, like in:
 
       TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test
 
@@ -500,7 +499,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.4:
 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
 
   - A definition of 'noinst_PYTHON' before 'python_PYTHON' (or similar)
-    don't cause spurious failures upon "make install" anymore.
+    no longer cause spurious failures upon "make install".
 
   - The user can now instruct the 'uninstall-info' rule not to update
     the '${infodir}/dir' file by exporting the environment variable
@@ -518,9 +517,9 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.4:
     '-I' is non-existent, aclocal will now create it before trying to copy
     files in it.
 
-  - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" don't cause anymore the
-    generated install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory;
-    for example, if Makefile.am contains something like:
+  - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" no longer cause the generated
+    install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory; for example, if
+    Makefile.am contains something like:
 
       pkglibexec_SCRIPTS =
       if FALSE
@@ -538,15 +537,15 @@ New in 1.11.3:
   - Automake's own build system is more silent by default, making use of
     the 'silent-rules' option.
 
-  - The master copy of the `gnupload' script is now maintained in gnulib,
+  - The master copy of the 'gnupload' script is now maintained in gnulib,
     not in automake.
 
-  - The `missing' script doesn't try to wrap calls to `tar' anymore.
+  - The 'missing' script no longer tries to wrap calls to 'tar'.
 
-  - "make dist" doesn't wrap `tar' invocations with the `missing' script
-    anymore.  Similarly, the obsolescent variable `$(AMTAR)' (which you
-    shouldn't be using BTW ;-) does not invoke the missing script anymore
-    to wrap tar, but simply invokes the `tar' program itself.
+  - "make dist" no longer wraps 'tar' invocations with the 'missing'
+    script.  Similarly, the obsolescent variable '$(AMTAR)' (which you
+    shouldn't be using BTW ;-) no longer invokes the 'missing' script
+    to wrap tar, but simply invokes the 'tar' program itself.
 
   - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
 
@@ -572,24 +571,24 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.3:
 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
 
   - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
-   `pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
+   'pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
 
-  - The parallel-tests harness doesn't trip anymore on sed implementations
+  - The parallel-tests harness now doesn't trip on sed implementations
     with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
     least on Solaris 8).
 
 * Long-standing bugs:
 
   - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
-    rules.  This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
-    some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
+    rules.  This allows 'make' to trigger a rerun of 'automake' also if
+    some previously needed '.am' file has been removed.
 
-  - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
-    for the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
-    nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008.  For such `make'
+  - The 'silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
+    for the uncommon 'make' implementations that do not support the
+    nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008.  For such 'make'
     implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
     configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
-    `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
+    "make V=0" or "make V=1".
 
   - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
 
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