Bug#903223: libkf5kiocore5: Symlink behavior over SFTP connection broken

[Alex Krusemark <akrusemark@posteo.net>]

Package: libkf5kiocore5
Version: 5.47.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Since a recent upgrade (I think it was the transition from KDE Frameworks 5.46
to 5.47), on filesystems accessed over an SFTP connection symbolic/soft links
whose target is a directory have broken behavior. Symlinks whose targets are
files still work properly.

Links to directories are shown as a link to a file with an unknown mimetype,
rather than that of a directory, and can neither be double-clicked to follow
nor expanded in tree view. The only way I see to follow them is by right-
clicking and choosing "Show Target" in Dolphin, with no obvious workaround in
other applications. I confirmed that this problem was present in Dolphin,
Krusader, Konqueror, Kate, and Calligra.

Thanks!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (700, '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=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libkf5kiocore5 depends on:
ii  libacl1            2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libc6              2.27-3
ii  libkf5auth5        5.47.0-1
ii  libkf5configcore5  5.47.0-1
ii  libkf5coreaddons5  5.47.0-1
ii  libkf5dbusaddons5  5.47.0-1
ii  libkf5i18n5        5.47.0-1
ii  libkf5service-bin  5.47.0-1
ii  libkf5service5     5.47.0-1
ii  libqt5core5a       5.10.1+dfsg-7
ii  libqt5dbus5        5.10.1+dfsg-7
ii  libqt5network5     5.10.1+dfsg-7
ii  libqt5xml5         5.10.1+dfsg-7
ii  libstdc++6         8.1.0-9

libkf5kiocore5 recommends no packages.

libkf5kiocore5 suggests no packages.

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