[gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

[Ciaran McCreesh]

Main changes since the previous edition:

* File format tweaks.

* Changes to the way relevance headers work to make it easy to do
things like "show this to gcc-3.3 users on x86 or sparc".

* News items are no longer copied. This makes it considerably easier to
install news items -- there's no longer a need to do clever directory
syncing tricks.

For those of you who can't read RST, an updated version will appear on
the website sometime in the not too distant future. For those of you
who can, see the attached.

For the sake of keeping this vaguely sane, replies that meet any of the
following criteria will be ignored:

* Top or HTML posting

* Lack of coherent English sentences, complete with proper punctuation
and capitalisation.

* The sender's first name ends in 'an', and they are not me.

* Questions about why the GLEP doesn't address hypothetical vapourware
concepts.

* Questions about why the GLEP doesn't provide a way to tell users that
there's a pissup at Reuben's house next Tuesday.

* Questions about why the GLEP doesn't require "integration with other
systems", rather than leaving it merely as something that should be
easily doable.

* Anything involving XML.

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