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
>
> -- debconf-show failed
>
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