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

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 13:06:28 +0200, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> 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

Has this been reported upstream? Both Debian and Ubuntu/Launchpad track
bugs in various packages including gvfs, but neither is the place to
contact the developers of gvfs.

    smcv