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commit b9384c4a1b1340aba53b979c7840bb6a1d3e70b2
Author: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 13:41:55 2013 +0100

    NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI depmode no longer is
    
    This change is for the master branch (see the similar commit
    'v1.13.1b-3-g97f04a5' on the maint branch).
    
    The only IRIX-specific support that is actually removed in master (and
    thus in the next major Automake version) is the depcomp support for the
    SGI compiler.  That means that automatic dependency tracking will no
    longer work with that compiler, but "normal" compilation should still
    work, at least until the compiler is supported by Autoconf.
    
    So there is no point in alarming our users by stating in the NEWS file
    that "support for IRIX and the SGI compilers has been removed"; after
    all, while we don't test on nor particularly care about IRIX anymore,
    that doesn't mean we are deliberately breaking it, and the likelihood
    of an intended breakage there is very low.
    
    See:
    <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00164.html>
    <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00165.html>
    
    * NEWS: Adjust.  Improve explanation of our rationale for dropping
    support for the SGI compilers.
    
    Suggested-by: Peter Rosin <address@hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>

commit 3553601fb233cced3e24827d3aefc213e409d9bc
Merge: 1dc3dac 0756a43
Author: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 13:35:40 2013 +0100

    Merge branch 'maint'
    
    * maint:
      NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI C compiler depcomp no longer is
      maint: version bump after beta release 1.13.1b
      NEWS: typofix
      release: beta release 1.13.1b (will become 1.13.2)

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Summary of changes:
 NEWS |   28 ++++++++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7a25b80..de85f94 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -35,11 +35,13 @@ New in 1.14:
 
 * Removed support for obsolete platforms:
 
-  - Support for the SGI C/C++ compilers has been removed: these compilers
-    are only meant to run on IRIX, and that system has seen its last
-    release in 2006, and is expected to lose support from SGI in December
-    2013; see <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html>
-    for more information.
+  - Support for automatic dependency tracking with the SGI C/C++ compilers
+    on IRIX has been removed.  The SGI depmode had been reported broken
+    "in the wild" already, and we don't think investing time in debugging
+    and fixing it would have been worthwhile, especially considering that
+    SGI has last updated those compilers in 2006, and is expected to retire
+    support for them in December 2013:
+    <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html>
 
   - Support for DJGPP on MS-DOS and/or Windows 95/98/ME has been removed.
     Note that both Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW on modern Windows versions will
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ New in 1.13.2:
     before Automake 1.14 is).
 
   - Automake 1.14 will drop support for the long-deprecated 'configure.in'
-    name for the Autoconf input file.  You are advised to start using
+    name for the Autoconf input file.  You are advised to start using the
     recommended name 'configure.ac' instead, ASAP.
 
   - The ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS special make variable will be fully deprecated
@@ -65,11 +67,13 @@ New in 1.13.2:
     support for AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS instead (which was introduced in
     Automake 1.13).
 
-  - Support for IRIX and the SGI C/C++ compilers will be removed in
-    Automake 1.14: they have seen their last release in 2006, and SGI
-    is expected to retire support from them in December 2013; see
-    <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html> for
-    more information.
+  - Automake 1.14 will remove support for automatic dependency tracking
+    with the SGI C/C++ compilers on IRIX.  The SGI depmode has been
+    reported broken "in the wild" already, and we don't think investing
+    time in debugging and fixing is worthwhile, especially considering
+    that SGI has last updated those compilers in 2006, and is expected
+    to retire support for them in December 2013:
+    <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html>
 
   - Future versions of Automake might remove support for MS-DOS and
     Windows 95/98/ME (support for them was offered by relying on the
@@ -166,7 +170,7 @@ New in 1.13.2:
     use cause runtime warnings.
 
   - The parallel testsuite is no longer reported as "experimental"; it
-    is well tested, ans should be stable now.
+    is well tested, and should be stable now.
 
   - The 'shar' and 'tarZ' distribution formats and the 'dist-shar' and
     'dist-tarZ' options are obsolescent, and their use is deprecated


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