doc: desc. provide{,-d-alias} extra specifiers in NEWS/man

Signed-off-by: Xavier Delaruelle <[email protected]>

Author: xdelaruelle

NEWS.rst

@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ Modules 5.6.0 (not yet released)
   *extra match search* mechanism is activated to scan modulefiles to get the
   module aliases they define.
 * Doc: add :ref:`provide` design notes.
+* Introduce ``provide`` and ``provided-alias`` extra specifiers to search
+  modules on :subcmd:`avail`, :subcmd:`spider`, :subcmd:`whatis` and
+  :subcmd:`paths` sub-commands. ``provided-alias`` extra specifier is an alias
+  onto ``provide`` and ``family`` extra specifiers.
 
 .. _Security policy: https://github.com/envmodules/modules/blob/main/SECURITY.md
 .. _Modules chat room: https://matrix.to/#/#modules:matrix.org

doc/source/module.rst

@@ -3155,10 +3155,12 @@ an environment variable, a shell alias, a module specification, etc.
 Supported extra specifier *elements* are:
 
 * ``variant``, ``complete``, ``uncomplete``, ``set-alias``, ``unset-alias``,
-  ``set-function``, ``unset-function``, ``chdir``, ``family``, ``tag``
+  ``set-function``, ``unset-function``, ``chdir``, ``tag``
 * ``setenv``, ``unsetenv``, ``append-path``, ``prepend-path``, ``remove-path``
   and ``pushenv``: these elements related to environment variable handling may
   also be aliased ``envvar``
+* ``family`` and ``provide``: these elements related to module alias may also
+  be aliases ``provided-alias``
 * ``prereq``, ``prereq-any``, ``prereq-all``, ``depends-on``,
   ``depends-on-any``, ``always-load``, ``load``, ``load-any``, ``try-load``,
   ``switch`` and ``switch-on``: these elements related to module requirement
@@ -3231,6 +3233,9 @@ query.
    .. versionchanged:: 5.6
       Support for :subcmd:`spider` sub-command added
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 5.6
+      Extra specifiers ``provide`` and ``provided-alias`` added
+
 
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