Subject: Re: bug#52681: 29.0.50; dired-do-compress assume tar files contain directories

From: Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:56:10 -0500

> * Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> [2021-12-20 21:23:32 +0200]:
>
>> From: Steingold <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:36:19 -0500
>> 
>> emacs -Q
>> M-x dired RET
>> test/data/decompress RET
>> navigate to tg.tar.gz
>> Z (dired-do-compress)
>> answer yes
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Reading directory" "No
>> such file or directory" "tg")
>>   access-file("tg" "Reading directory")
>
> AFAIU, it's a feature.  Welcome to the brave new Dired.

I am sure you are joking.
I think replacing this action with a simple buffer refresh would be an improvement.

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