On 1/20/2022 3:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 53293@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:13:33 -0800
>>
>> The changes to `source' and `.' might warrant a NEWS entry, since it's a
>> (small) incompatible change; however, I think it's so rare that someone
>> would call "source --help" that it might not be worth adding to NEWS.
>> I'll do whatever others think is best here, though.
> 
> I think a NEWS entry is called for, since the change in behavior is
> not backward-compatible.

Thanks. Here are updated patches with a NEWS entry to explain the change 
to `source' and `.'. I also rebased the first patch to fix a merge 
conflict with the patch for bug#27361.