bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:04:53 +0100
> Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, Ulrich Windl 
> <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 
>       20403@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > That'd cause trouble when merging from the release branch.  Symlinks
> > complicate VCS operations in general.
> 
> Does that hold even if NEWS is a symlink also on the release branch?

Yes, because it's a symlink to a different file.

> (FWIW, I also think it would be nice to switch to org-mode.)

Yep.