--- a/lisp/ChangeLog	Mon Feb 04 20:03:04 2013 -0500
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog	Sat Feb 16 04:55:38 2013 +0900
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+2013-02-16  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen@xemacs.org>
+
+	Thanks to Jeff Sparkes for the original patches and to Mike Sperber
+	for discussion.
+
+	* obsolete.el (define-obsolete-function-alias):
+	(define-compatible-function-alias):
+	(define-obsolete-variable-alias):
+	(define-compatible-variable-alias):
+	Add optional WHEN and DOCSTRING arguments for GNU compatibility.
+	Document WHEN as ignored.  Support DOCSTRING as well as the
+	underlying functions allow.
+
 2013-01-22  Jerry James  <james@xemacs.org>
 
 	* glyphs.el (make-image-specifier): Document that :visible is a