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 <pronovic@debian.org>
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: