Re: [PATCH] chmodat, chownat: new modules

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> These are split from fchmodat, fchownat.  GNU Emacs needs the
> POSIX-specified fchmodat, but not the gnulib-specified chmodat and
> lchmodat.  Split the latter two into a new module chmodat.

As this is a backward-incompatible change for the gnulib users, we
should advertise it in the NEWS file. Done like this:


2020-02-22  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        Update NEWS.
        * NEWS: Mention the last change.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bc81dfc..4b9a983 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ User visible incompatible changes
 
 Date        Modules         Changes
 
+2020-02-22  fchownat        This module no longer defines the functions
+                            'chownat' and 'lchownat'.  Program that need these
+                            functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
+                            list of imported modules.
+
+2020-02-22  fchmodat        This module no longer defines the functions
+                            'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'.  Program that need these
+                            functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
+                            list of imported modules.
+
 2020-02-07  fchmodat        When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
             lchmod          chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
                             fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing