Subject: bug#10475: 24.0.92; `C-h v' displays `*' indicating user option

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:50:47 -0700 (PDT)

If it wasn't clear, consider a library that is perfectly
usable in Emacs 25 but also in older Emacs versions that
require the `*'.  That library _should_ continue to use
the `*'.  Emacs 25 and later should tolerate it: remove
it from the output, knowing that older code will have it.

It is narrow-minded to think that just because the latest
distributed Emacs code no longer needs something no other
Emacs code needs it.