Add a NEWS entry on the room format upgrade in 0.99.5.1debian/0.99.2-6

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diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 1239f312..2dac0e68 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+matrix-synapse (0.99.2-6) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  IMPORTANT, READ THE BELOW IF YOU RUN A MATRIX HOMESERVER.
+
+  0.99.2 will be the latest version of Synapse included in Buster.
+  Unfortunately, the 0.99.5.1 version introduces an incompatible change,
+  a new room format version 4, which version 1.0 will default to.
+  As servers and chat rooms switch to the new format, 0.99.2 will not
+  be able to join these rooms.
+
+  This means that once Buster is released, you will have to upgrade
+  Synapse to a newer version which will be available in buster-backports
+  by that time. Before the Buster release, newer upstream versions will
+  be regularly uploaded to experimental.
+
+  I am sorry for this inconvenience.
+
+  To learn more about this change and its impact, you can read these
+  blog posts by the upstream developers:
+
+   * https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/21/synapse-0-99-5-1-released
+   * https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/24/final-countdown-to-1-0
+
+ -- Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:20:52 +0200
+
 matrix-synapse (0.99.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   This version of the package introduces support for the Server-to-Server
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a7865219..63b01ac6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+matrix-synapse (0.99.2-6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add a NEWS entry on the room format upgrade in 0.99.5.1.
+
+ -- Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:28:41 +0200
+
 matrix-synapse (0.99.2-5) unstable; urgency=high
 
   * Security updates backported from 0.99.3: