Dear Julian, Please find below a bug report filed against bzip2 in Debian. Is it expected that bzip2 does not follow symlinks?
Best regards, Santiago El 15/07/16 a las 23:30, drcnjio908 escribió: > Package: bzip2 > Version: 1.0.6-8 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Steps to reproduce: > echo test > a > bzip2 --compress --keep a > ln -s a.bz2 b.bz2 > bzip2 -d b.bz2 > bzip2: Input file b.bz2 is not a normal file. > > What I think it should do: > Extract the file the symbolic link points to. > > Related Bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=41217 > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (54, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages bzip2 depends on: > ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 > ii libc6 2.22-10 > > bzip2 recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages bzip2 suggests: > pn bzip2-doc <none> > > -- debconf-show failed >
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