Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com> schrieb am So., 17. Sep. 2017 um
22:19 Uhr:

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> I’m not sure what Emac’s principles are on it, but perhaps an error
> pointing to this change when attempting to copy to a non-existing
> directory would help people in the future as well since this is a
> change in behavior to an existing function w/o a deprecation.
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I think copy-directory is mostly used by libraries, so alerting the user
wouldn't help: the problem is in the libraries that invoke copy-directory.
That the behavior changed is unfortunate, but unavoidable due to security
concerns. The behavior changes are mentioned in NEWS.