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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2023-03-01 15:03:30 -0800 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2023-03-01 15:03:30 -0800 |
commit | 0901ccdd0cb21bfa3911a2668615e388fef94426 (patch) | |
tree | 5b7fdb95b383a6c7a3c471fd681d3eb5bc7d9a43 | |
parent | 4f5a624dfa457d414d9da204a06178dcaaef82ee (diff) | |
download | automake-0901ccdd0cb21bfa3911a2668615e388fef94426.tar.gz |
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.
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS-2.0 | 8 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -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: @@ -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. |