[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#914759: /usr/bin/zstd: zstdcat confusing error message on incorrect filename

[Witold Baryluk]

Package: zstd
Version: 1.3.5+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/zstd

user at debian:~/mkd$ zstdcat abc.tar.zst | tar xf -
zstd: abc.tar.zst is not a regular file -- ignored 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
user at debian:~/mkd$ ls abc.tar.zst
ls: cannot access 'abc.tar.zst': No such file or directory
user at debian:~/mkd$ stat abc.tar.zst
stat: cannot stat 'abc.tar.zst': No such file or directory
user at debian:~/mkd$



The error message isn't helpful, because it suggest the filename is
correct but it is not a file, and maybe a directory or a block device or
something.


Best regards,
Witold


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages zstd depends on:
ii  libc6       2.27-8
ii  libgcc1     1:8.2.0-9
ii  liblz4-1    1.8.2-1
ii  liblzma5    5.2.2-1.3
ii  libstdc++6  8.2.0-9
ii  zlib1g      1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

zstd recommends no packages.

zstd suggests no packages.

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