Re: [BUG] What about excluding .dir-locals.el from GNU ELPA tarball?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Morgan Willcock <morgan@ice9.digital> writes:

> I believe it is up to the file to opt-out of compilation.

That's true, but .dir-locals is a special file. So, I expected Emacs to
treat it specially during compilation as well. To not break old,
no-longer-maintained packages, if nothing.

> If the file is created with add-dir-local-variable there is a boiler
> plate header inserted which opts out:
>
>   ;;; Directory Local Variables            -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
>   ;;; For more information see (info "(emacs) Directory Variables")
> ...
> ...  The solution would be to add
> the missing header to the .dir-locals.el file.

I do not see any downside of adding this to .dir-locals.el file.
Would you mind submitting a patch?

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