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>

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