From: Karl Berry Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 23:03:30 +0000 (-0800) Subject: doc: tweak old NEWS about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS. X-Git-Tag: v1.16i~63 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0901ccdd0cb21bfa3911a2668615e388fef94426;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git 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. --- 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.