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25.0.50; Dired switches have no effect when explicit list of files provided

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 20739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20739: 25.0.50; Dired switches have no effect when explicit list of files provided
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:25:15 +0300

> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 01:34:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> emacs -Q
> 
> Given two files whose names are a.el and b.el, with b.el more recent
> than a.el.
> 
> M-: (dired '("foo" "a.el" "b.el") "-lstF")
> 
> The files are listed in alphabetic order, not by date as specified by
> arg SWITCHES and as indicated in the mode line.
> 
> Hitting `s' any number of times has no effect on the order of the
> files.  But it updates the mode line in a misleading way, saying
> alternately that the files are ordered by dated.

Isn't this bug#16533?

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