* meta: Drop support for "meta link", since supporting this for internal

  links required meta to be run during scan, which complicated its data
  storage, since it had to clear data stored during the scan pass to avoid
  duplicating it during the normal preprocessing pass.
* If you used "meta link", you should switch to either "meta openid" (for
  openid delegations), or tags (for internal, invisible links). I assume
  that nobody really used "meta link" for external, non-openid links, since
  the htmlscrubber ate those. (Tell me differently and I'll consider bringing
  back that support.)
* meta: Improved data storage.
* meta: Drop the hackish filter hook that was used to clear
  stored data before preprocessing, this hack was ugly, and broken (cf:
  liw's disappearing openids).
* aggregate: Convert filter hook to a needsbuild hook.

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diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 479746427..e119da45b 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ ikiwiki (2.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
   and will be removed later.
 
+  The meta plugin no longer supports setting internal or external links
+  with "meta link". Instead, use "meta openid" for openid links, and use tags
+  for in-wiki invisible links between pages.
+
   If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
   cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
   --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that