[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#587372: mc: fish does not preserve modification time when copying files to remote host

[SZABO Zsolt]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.7.0.6-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

*Since lenny* the "fish" in mc does not preserve the original modification
time of a file that is copied to a remote host, instead it will be changed
to the time of copying. Thus, the files cannot be "synced" or "mirrored".
(It is like "cp -a" would work without the option "-a".) This "annoying"
behaviour appeared first in lenny: in etch the copying to remote hosts
with mc still worked as the copying to a local folder, AFAIR.
(If there is an adjustable option for it then I could not find it... sorry.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-openvz-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=hu_HU, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.1-3   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-3.3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.2.2-4    The S-Lang programming library - r

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.48-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii  arj                      3.10.22-8       archiver for .arj files
ii  bzip2                    1.0.5-4         high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  catdvi                   <none>          (no description available)
pn  dbview                   <none>          (no description available)
pn  djvulibre-bin            <none>          (no description available)
ii  file                     5.04-2          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]          1:3.7.1-1       PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  imagemagick              7:6.6.0.4-2     image manipulation programs
ii  lynx                     2.8.8dev.3-3    Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
pn  odt2txt                  <none>          (no description available)
ii  perl                     5.10.1-13       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python                   2.5.4-9         An interactive high-level object-o
pn  python-boto              <none>          (no description available)
pn  python-tz                <none>          (no description available)
ii  unzip                    6.0-4           De-archiver for .zip files
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.4+lenny2 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zip                      3.0-3           Archiver for .zip files

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