Asterix - denoting required is missing for 'file' field

The entire feed section is generated by the feeds module and hence this issue would have to be taken up in the feeds issue queue.

In your screenshot, a file is already uploaded. So uploading an other file is not required. I think this works as designed.

Apologies for the confusion. Here is the correct screenshot

Thanks for the other screenshot!

This patch could fix it. Lets see if this breaks any tests.

Apparently, it does break tests. Either the fix isn't completely right, or there is are good reason that the file upload field is not marked as required.

A field of type 'file' cannot be set as required due to this Drupal core bug: #59750: Required flag on file forms breaks on validation.

Converting the file upload field to the field type 'managed_file' could fix the problem as said in #59750-51: Required flag on file forms breaks on validation. This may require more changes in the file fetcher.

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