news: fixlets and updates

* NEWS: Here.  In particular, report the change in 'missing'
semantics.

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

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0b3004e88261c454f898bb63f83c384eefe8154f..ee16961853b0206ba29c4a0c3b37294197e29ef7 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ New in 1.12.2:
     version (1.13).  Until now, Automake has required Autoconf version
     2.62 or later.
 
-  - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
-    build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
-    option by default.  Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
-    4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
-    will require at least that version of Texinfo.
+  - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules
+    to build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the
+    '--build-dir' option by default.  Since such an option was only
+    introduced in Texinfo 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by
+    future Automake versions will require at least that version of
+    Texinfo.
 
   - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
     testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
@@ -41,8 +42,8 @@ New in 1.12.2:
     the next major Automake version (1.13).
 
   - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
-    AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version
-    of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13).
+    AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro is deprecated, and will be removed in the
+    next major Automake version (1.13).
 
   - The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably
     be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).  You should
@@ -53,6 +54,13 @@ New in 1.12.2:
     search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
     next Automake release (1.13).
 
+  - The 'missing' script will not try anymore 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+    of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be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
+    giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a
+    make recipe would.
+
 * Warnings and deprecations:
 
   - Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if