Move deprecation message to Installation Changes and rewrite it.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 439624eeb42ae3f94f88c829c917810e477bb645..914f79acc1b00a7cebb39f86418b3014f1f9d547 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -42,6 +42,25 @@ below.  Emacs tries to warn you about these through `bad-packages-alist'.
 
 ** Support for GNU/kFreeBSD (GNU userland and FreeBSD kernel) was added.
 
+** Deprecated machine types and operating systems
+
+Certain machine types and operating systems have been deprecated.  On
+these systems, configure will print a warning and exit, and you must
+edit the configure script for compilation to proceed.  The deprecated
+systems will not be supported at all in Emacs 23.  We are not aware of
+anyone running Emacs on these systems; if you are, please email
+emacs-devel@gnu.org to take it off the list of deprecated systems.
+
+*** Deprecated machine types
+pmax, hp9000s300, ibm370aix, ncr386, ews4800, mips-siemens, powerpcle,
+and tandem-s2
+
+*** Deprecated operating systems
+bsd386, bsdos2-1, bsdos2, bsdos3, bsdos4, bsd4-1, bsd4-2, bsd4-3,
+usg5-0, usg5-2-2, usg5-2, usg5-3, ultrix4-3, 386bsd, hpux, hpux8,
+hpux9, hpux9shr, hpux10, hpux10-20, aix3-1, aix3-2-5, aix3-2, aix4-1,
+nextstep, ux4800, uxpds, and uxpv
+
 * Changes in Emacs 22.2
 
 ** `describe-project' is renamed to `describe-gnu-project'.
@@ -170,14 +189,6 @@ of strings, undoing any quoting added by `combine-and-quote-strings'.
 (For some separator/string combinations, the original strings cannot
 be recovered.)
 
-* Systems that will not be supported in the future
-configure will print a warning and exit for a set of systems that are
-believed to not be in use anymore.  The support has not been removed
-yet, but configure will need to be edited in order to allow
-compilation to proceed on such a system.  If you are using such a
-system, please send a message to emacs-devel@gnu.org in order to take
-off the list of systems.
-
 \f
 * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1