Patch taken from Debian sid. Description: Support uncompressing and compressing soft links. Historically, ncompress for Debian has been built using a command line directly in debian/rules. For 4.2.4.5-1, I simplified by swtching to the upstream Makefile. However, that caused a regression - the Debian version of ncompress has always successfully handled soft links, but this stopped working. To revert to the original behavior, I need to remove -DLSTAT from the build options, to be consistent with how the code was previously built. Author: Kenneth J. Pronovici Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/918836 Index: ncompress/GNUmakefile =================================================================== --- ncompress.orig/GNUmakefile +++ ncompress/GNUmakefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ distclean: cleanup Makefile: Makefile.def GNUmakefile sed \ - -e 's:options= :options= $$(CFLAGS) -DNOFUNCDEF -DUTIME_H -DLSTAT $$(LDFLAGS) :' \ + -e 's:options= :options= $$(CFLAGS) -DNOFUNCDEF -DUTIME_H $$(LDFLAGS) :' \ Makefile.def > Makefile check: