Add whitespace package information.

diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-07-24  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
+
+       * NEWS: Add information about whitespace package.
+
 2008-07-19  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
 
        * tutorials/TUTORIAL: Add information about C-g to the introduction.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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@@ -498,7 +498,11 @@ lines.  This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.
 
 ** A new `whitespace' package has been installed, and the pre-existing one
 renamed to `old-whitespace'.
-[FIXME someone explain why this is good, if it is...]
+Now, besides reporting bogus blanks, whitespace package has a minor mode and a
+global minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) SPACE and NEWLINE).  The
+visualization is made via faces and/or display table. Also it is possible to
+select which kind of blanks should be visualized, for example, trailing blanks,
+leading blanks, spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.
 
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