backward compatibility finite elements removed & exists in sparsity pattern

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@5447 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-2.html b/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-2.html
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@@ -231,6 +231,15 @@ documentation, etc</a>.
 <h3>lac</h3>
 
 <ol>
+  <li> <p>
+
+       Improved: all sparsity pattern classes have a function <code
+       class="member">exists</code>, allowing you to check whether a
+       certain index pair has been allocated in the pattern.
+       <br>
+       (GK 2002/02/01)
+       </p>
+
   <li> <p>
        Fixed: Allocation of temporary vectors in <code
        class="member">FilteredMatrix::allocate_tmp_vector</code>
@@ -331,12 +340,27 @@ documentation, etc</a>.
 <h3>deal.II</h3>
 
 <ol>
+  <li> <p>
+       Changed: The classes <code class="class">FEQ1</code>-<code
+       class="class">FEQ4</code>, <code
+       class="class">FEDG_Q1</code><code class="class">FEDG_Q4</code>
+       as well as the files with their definitions,
+       <tt>fe/fe_lib.lagrange.h</tt> and <tt>fe/fe_lib.dg.h</tt>
+       ceased to exist. They had been left in for backward
+       compatibility in an earlier version, but their existence is
+       more confusing than helpful. Please change your code to use the
+       classes <code class="class">FE_Q</code> and <code
+       class="class">FE_DGQ</code>, respectively.
+       <br>
+       (GK 2002/02/01)
+       </p>
+
   <li> <p>
        New: The <code class="class">FilteredIterator</code> class
        provides a view on ranges of iterators by iterating over only
        those objects that satisfy a certain predicate.
        <br>
-       (GK 2002/01/07)
+       (WB 2002/01/07)
        </p>
 
   <li> <p>