From 66e697ffc422d8ed21ad862fa9616856fc4b2437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enno Boland <g@s01.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:00:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: explain new reverts field.

---
 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 487f1ddd..393708ea 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ xbps-0.41 (???):
 
  * A performance improvement for xbps_file_hash(), by Enno Boland.
 
+ * Added reverts field to package definitions. If defined, a package will
+   replace all versions specified in this field even if the installed version is
+   newer. This is helpful when a broken package is released. The maintainer can
+   downgrade this package and define a reverts field to the broken version. On
+   the next update the user will automatically replace the broken release by the
+   new downgraded release.
+
 xbps-0.40 (2014-09-18):
 
  * xbps-install(8): handle xbps_transaction_prepare() returning ENOSPC, to