Package: gzip
Version: 1.9-2.1
Severity: normal
File: /bin/gunzip

$> rm -rf /tmp/testgz; mkdir /tmp/testgz; cd /tmp/testgz; echo 123 > 123; gzip 
123; ln -s 123.gz linked.gz; ls -l; gunzip linked.gz 
total 4
-rw------- 1 yoh yoh 28 Dec 10 10:47 123.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 yoh yoh  6 Dec 10 10:47 linked.gz -> 123.gz
gzip: skipping: linked.gz is a symbolic link

Expected result is to have 123.gz and linked files

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (100, 
'unstable-debug'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gzip depends on:
ii  dpkg          1.19.0.5
ii  install-info  6.5.0.dfsg.1-2
ii  libc6         2.28-2

gzip recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gzip suggests:
ii  less  487-0.1

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