Bug#907257: gvfs: does not preserve dates when copying remote files

[Francesco Potortì]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.36.2-1
Severity: normal

This is an ancient, but still unresolved problem, described at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/332646

In short, both Nautilus and Caja do not preserve file dates when copying
files over SSH.  This is serious, bceuse it makes it impossible to make
backups which are upgraded only when necessary, as date information is
lost.

A bounty has been created for this bug, as mentioned in the Launchpad
report.  The bounty is at
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/23459433-gvfs-should-set-file-attributes-properly


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C:en_GB:en:en_US:it:fr:es (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  gvfs-common   1.36.2-1
ii  gvfs-daemons  1.36.2-1
ii  gvfs-libs     1.36.2-1
ii  libc6         2.27-5
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.56.1-2

gvfs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
ii  gvfs-backends  1.36.2-1

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