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Bug#1041241: bzip2: stop creating hardlinks in /usr/bin/

From sq9ybv+6t32455pzuxds@cs.email
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1041241: bzip2: stop creating hardlinks in /usr/bin/
Date 2023-07-16 14:30 +0200
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Package: bzip2
Version: 1.0.8-5+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the package bzip2 currently creates the following hardlinks:

/bin/bunzip2
/bin/bzcat
/bin/bzip2

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 bzip2 depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0  1.0.8-5+b1
ii  libc6       2.36-9

bzip2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bzip2 suggests:
pn  bzip2-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information

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