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