Bug#918836: ncompress: failure with soft links

2019-01-12 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
It looks like this is because -DLSTAT got added to upstream's default build options for 4.2.4.5. That flag has not historically been used in the Debian builds. I removed it, and that seems to resolve the problem. I'll push a new version of the package later today, after I get a chance to add

Bug#918836: ncompress: failure with soft links

2019-01-09 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 11:45 Martin Lutz Package: ncompress > Version: 4.2.4.5-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > the command "compress -dc file.Z > t.t" fails if file.Z is a soft link. The > error message is: "file.Z is not a directory or a regular file - ignored". > > Before the latest

Bug#918836: ncompress: failure with soft links

2019-01-09 Thread Martin Lutz
Package: ncompress Version: 4.2.4.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the command "compress -dc file.Z > t.t" fails if file.Z is a soft link. The error message is: "file.Z is not a directory or a regular file - ignored". Before the latest update this command worked without problems. --