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Bug#1041239: gzip: stop creating hardlinks in /usr/bin/

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Package: gzip
Version: 1.12-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the package gzip currently creates the following hardlinks:

/bin/gunzip
/bin/uncompress

Please choose one to be a symlink to the other instead. These are one of the few hardlinks on my system and make backup software complain. Other software in debian repositories also uses the symlink method when they want an executable to be started with different names.

Thank you.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gzip depends on:
ii  dpkg   1.21.22
ii  libc6  2.36-9

gzip recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gzip suggests:
ii  less  590-2

-- no debconf information

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