[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#689258: Does not display content of symlinked .diff.gz files

[Luca Falavigna]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.3-9
Severity: minor

mc is not able to inspect a symlink pointing to a .diff.gz file (it is
considered empty). Contents are displayed if inspecting the original file.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.42.5-1
ii  libc6         2.13-35
ii  libcomerr2    1.42.5-1
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.33.12+really2.32.4-1
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-6
ii  libslang2     2.2.4-15
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.3-9

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.52-2
ii  perl          5.14.2-13
ii  unzip         6.0-7

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                  <none>
ii  bzip2                1.0.6-4
pn  catdvi               <none>
pn  dbview               <none>
pn  djvulibre-bin        <none>
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]  3.4.0-3
ii  file                 5.11-2
pn  gv                   <none>
ii  imagemagick          8:6.7.7.10-4
pn  links | w3m | lynx   <none>
pn  odt2txt              <none>
ii  python               2.7.3-2
pn  python-boto          <none>
pn  python-tz            <none>
pn  zip                  <none>

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