** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Status: New => In Progress
** Description changed:
+ [ Description ]
+
+ Can't trash files if the directory they are in is a symlink to another
+ device
+
+ [ QA ]
+
+ Steps:
+ 1. Install system and partition disk into root and data partitions
+ 2. create ~/Data folder, and mount data partition on it
+ 3. create symlinks for ~/whatever/ to ~/Data/something/
+ 4. delete files directly inside ~/whatever/
+
+ What happen:
+ Then Nautilus says: "File can't be put in the trash. Do you want to delete it
immediately?".
+
+ What should happen:
+ The files moved into Trash.
+
+ [ Regression potential ]
+
+ The proposed fix uses g_stat instead of g_stat to follow symlinks, so we
+ know where to place the trash (you can't rename() across filesystems).
+ If that is wrong, then it could regress trashing other kinds of files.
+
+ [ Original ]
+
I'm on Ubuntu 16.10 64-bit with libglib2.0-0 version 2.50.0-1.
I've reported this bug (or marked as "it affects me") in a couple of
other places before I've finally discovered that this is the package
that's causing this problem, which unfortunately has been around for a
couple of years now.
This bug has been reported upstream as well, but it's just taking very
very long to arrive at a decision and take action it seems.
Apparently one of the patches
(https://sources.debian.net/patches/glib2.0/2.50.1-1/0001-Fix-trashing-
on-overlayfs.patch/) which is here
(https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/glib2.0_2.50.0-1.debian.tar.xz)
to the original package which is here
(https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/glib2.0_2.50.0.orig.tar.xz)
is the root cause of this annoying problem.
As I prefer keeping one patition for the root filesystem (/), one
partition for user settings (/home) and one partition for user data
(Documents, Downloads, Drive, Music, Pictures, Public, Videos) which are
simply symlinked to my home folder for ease of use, I cannot move any
file to the trash in the root of these folders when I access them from
my home folder or nautilus sidebar.
This problem doesn't affect folders at all, nor any other files in
subfolders, etc.
So I was wondering if Ubuntu devs can leave out that particular patch
when building this package for Ubuntu - if it doesn't cause more harm,
which I doubt.
Otherwise, I would appreciate if I could learn how to do it myself: how
can I (as an end-user) compile the contents of
"glib2.0_2.50.0.orig.tar.xz" with all the patches, etc. in
"glib2.0_2.50.0-1.debian.tar.xz" except "0001-Fix-trashing-on-
overlayfs.patch"?
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Files in the root of a folder on another partition symlinked to user's
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