Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:59:43 +0300

> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:34:27 -0700
> 
> -  /* If the file name has special constructs in it,
> -     call the corresponding file handler.  */
> -  handler = Ffind_file_name_handler (target, Qmake_symbolic_link);
> -  if (!NILP (handler))
> -    return call4 (handler, Qmake_symbolic_link, target,
> -		  linkname, ok_if_already_exists);
> -

Why remove this part?  You also did not mentioned that in NEWS.

Thanks.