Subject: bug#18716: 24.3; dired-omit-extensions's default value omits COPYING.LIB

From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:26:03 +0100

On 15 October 2014 15:21, Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> wrote:

> >> Is COPYING.LIB a file that contains the LGPL license?
> >> Why name it so weirdly?
> > L used to stand for Library.
>
> Doesn't explain the need for an extension.

This isn't really the forum for discussing the naming of a GNU license
file. dired-omit-mode deals sub-optimally with this particular name, and
even if the standard name were changed tomorrow, it would continue to occur
in the wild for years; so the real issue is: does it matter enough to fix
Emacs's treatment of it?

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