SUMMARY Copying a file with the same name of an existing symlink using FISH protocol changes the content of the linked file. The same action performed via SFTP or on a local filesystem behaves as expected: the symlink is removed and replaced with the new file, since it's a symbolic link and not a hard link. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. create the environment: mkdir -p fishbug/f1 fishbug/f2 fishbug/f3 cd fishbug echo 1 > f1/a; echo 1 > f1/b echo 3 > f3/a; echo 3 > f3/b echo 2 > f1/a; cd f2 ln -s ../f3/b . 2. now copy both files from f1 to f2 overwriting existing content 3. check the content of file in f3 OBSERVED RESULT The synlink in f2 is followed and the content of f3/b is altered EXPECTED RESULT The symlink in f2 is removed and replaced with a regular file from f1 This happens both on a local filesystem and via SFTP SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Tested on - Dolphin 20.12.2 on Debian 11, KDE Frameworks 5.78.0, Qt 5.15.2 - Dolphin 22.12.3 on Debian 12, KDE Frameworks 5.103.0, Qt 5.15.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Link to similar bugs: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465762 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478212 both related to saving to a symlink, which is a completely different action from copying/moving files https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359027 Request to add possibility to dereference symlinks during copy/move jobs
Hi, I'm afraid Dolphin 20.x and 22.x are unfortunately no longer eligible for support or maintenance from KDE. Debian advises users to not submit bugs upstream (https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting). Could you report the bug to Debian using the report bug utility (https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/reportbug)? If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the bug upstream. Thanks for understanding!