Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I vote +1 on the suggestion to just start using etc/NEWS.29
>
> I'd be fine with that -- I don't see any significant downsides.  And in
> addition to avoiding the merging problems, it'd help a bit with the VC
> history of the NEWS.x file itself (it can sometimes be a challenge to
> try to see which change went with which NEWS entry because of the way
> the history if the NEWS file goes back to 1999).

How about the attached patch?