diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 71cb0f0d1b2..7f6116cbbc4 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2218,16 +2218,16 @@ the emacs-mule encoding.  Also, files stored in the emacs-mule
 encoding using Emacs 20 with additional private charsets defined will
 probably not be read correctly by Emacs 21.
 
-** Not really a change (yet), but a projected one that of which you
-should be aware of: The variable `directory-sep-char' is deprecated,
-and should not be used.  It was always ignored on GNU/Linux and Unix
-systems and on MS-DOS, but the MS-Windows port tried to support it by
-adapting the behavior of certain primitives to the value of this
-variable.  It turned out that such support cannot be reliable, so it
-was decided to remove this variable in the near future.  Lisp programs
-are well advised not to set it to anything but '/', because any
-different value will not have any effect when support for this
-variable is removed.
+** The variable `directory-sep-char' is slated for removal.
+Not really a change (yet), but a projected one that you should be
+aware of: The variable `directory-sep-char' is deprecated, and should
+not be used.  It was always ignored on GNU/Linux and Unix systems and
+on MS-DOS, but the MS-Windows port tried to support it by adapting the
+behavior of certain primitives to the value of this variable.  It
+turned out that such support cannot be reliable, so it was decided to
+remove this variable in the near future.  Lisp programs are well
+advised not to set it to anything but '/', because any different value
+will not have any effect when support for this variable is removed.
 
 
 * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual,