Bug#918836: ncompress: failure with soft links
It looks like this is because -DLSTAT got added to upstream's default build options for 4.2.4.5. That flag has not historically been used in the Debian builds. I removed it, and that seems to resolve the problem. I'll push a new version of the package later today, after I get a chance to add some tests to prevent this regression the next time. KEN
Bug#918836: ncompress: failure with soft links
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 11:45 Martin Lutz Package: ncompress > Version: 4.2.4.5-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > the command "compress -dc file.Z > t.t" fails if file.Z is a soft link. The > error message is: "file.Z is not a directory or a regular file - ignored". > > Before the latest update this command worked without problems. Thanks for reporting this. I guess I don't have an autopktest case for that scenario, so I'll add one. I'll see if I can figure out what caused the change. There hasn't been any upstream release in years, and I had to make changes to my build process for this release, so I'm not sure whether I caused this or it was an upstream change. KEN > >
Bug#918836: ncompress: failure with soft links
Package: ncompress Version: 4.2.4.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the command "compress -dc file.Z > t.t" fails if file.Z is a soft link. The error message is: "file.Z is not a directory or a regular file - ignored". Before the latest update this command worked without problems. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ncompress depends on: ii libc6 2.28-2 ncompress recommends no packages. ncompress suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
