[issue18967] Find a less conflict prone approach to Misc/NEWS

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

> Unless one looks carefully, it does not help the problen of merging 
> maintenance bugfix items into a default list that also contains 
> enhancement news not in the maintenance list*.

What if instead of having sections in Misc/NEWS for core/library/documentation/etc., we simply make sections for bug fixes and enhancements?  Wouldn't this basically solve the conflict problem (assuming all/most bug fixes are backported, and new features are only on default)?

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