Package: gvfs-fuse Version: 0.2.5-1 Severity: important
When using gvfs-fuse, symbolic links are always dereferenced: lakeview ok % ls -l ~/.gvfs/sftp\ on\ castro/vmlinuz -r-------- 1 bmc bmc 1727456 2008-07-14 12:16 /home/bmc/.gvfs/sftp on castro/vmlinuz castro ok % ls -l /vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-05-14 13:27 /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-amd64 Symbolic links are a fairly essential part of any Unix filesystem, and always dereferencing them is incorrect. gvfs-fuse should display symbolic links as symbolic links and not dereference them. I would have no objection to "fixing up" symlinks so that they point to the correct location on the network filesystem. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gvfs-fuse depends on: ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfuse2 2.7.3-4 Filesystem in USErspace library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgvfscommon0 0.2.5-1 userspace virtual filesystem - lib gvfs-fuse recommends no packages. gvfs-fuse suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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