diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index b444fc59677..b13ab47768b 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ change to one of the data structures that it relies on.
 ** The configure options '--enable-checking=conslist' and
 '--enable-checking=xmallocoverrun' have been withdrawn.  The former
 made Emacs irredeemably slow, and the latter made it crash.  Neither
-option was useful with modern debugging tools such as AddressSanitizer
-(see etc/DEBUG).
+option was useful with modern debugging tools such as AddressSanitizer.
+(See etc/DEBUG for the details of using the modern replacements of the
+removed configure options.)
 
 ---
 ** Emacs now requires GTK 2.24 and GTK 3.10 for the GTK 2 and GTK 3