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 -- debconf-show failed