There's no reason to; this file isn't auto-generated or anything like
that.
-;;; version.el --- record version number of Emacs
+;;; version.el --- record version number of Emacs -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1992, 1994-1995, 1999-2012
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(purecopy (concat "\n$Id: " (subst-char-in-string ?\n ?\s (emacs-version))
" $\n"))
-;; Local Variables:
-;; version-control: never
-;; no-byte-compile: t
-;; End:
-
;;; version.el ends here