[PATCH 11/10] Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.

[Stefano Lattarini]

Oops, I forgot to add a proper NEWS entry!

Oh well, no big deal, since it was the last thing to add
anyway.

Regards,
  Stefano

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Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.

* NEWS: Automake explicit warning levels always take precedence
over the implicit warning levels implied by Automake strictness.
---
 ChangeLog |    6 ++++++
 NEWS      |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e1b23b2..c952446 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2010-12-20  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
 
+       Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.
+       * NEWS: Automake explicit warning levels always take precedence
+       over the implicit warning levels implied by Automake strictness.
+
+2010-12-20  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
+
        Warnings win over strictness in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
        This change ensures that, for what concerns the options specified
        in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS,  explicitly-defined warnings always take
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5e24313..d3bbef4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -91,6 +91,16 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
   - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
     `make -n' is invoked.  Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
     Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
+
+  - Now explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
+    through the `-W...' options always takes precedence over the implicit
+    warning level implied by an Automake strictness (foreign, gnu, gnits),
+    regardless of the order in which such strictness and warning flags
+    appears.  For example, a setting like:
+      AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
+    will cause the warnings in category `portability' to be enabled, even
+    if those warnings are by default disabled in `foreign' strictness.
 
 New in 1.11:
 
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