From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 14:25:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: mention the recent rm improvement
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doc: mention the recent rm improvement

* NEWS: Mention the improvement re handling of directory errnos.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d1c400e67f..7f4eab921c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   date --debug now diagnoses if multiple --date or --set options are
   specified, as only the last specified is significant in that case.
 
+  rm outputs more accurate diagnostics in the presence of errors
+  when removing directories.  For example EIO will be faithfully
+  diagnosed, rather than being conflated with ENOTEMPTY.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 9.1 (2022-04-15) [stable]