deprecate some useless, noop methods in symtable
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index daba284..9aaf5eb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
Library
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+- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
+ symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
+
- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.