[dolphin] [Bug 464225] copy/move symbolic link moves link destination instead

[Jérôme Borme]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464225

--- Comment #1 from Jérôme Borme <kde.h8bcay at escreve.me> ---
This bug can cause data loss so I would say it is quite important. For me it's
a blocker for the v23 series of dolphin (v22.12 is good). The scenario for data
loss (happened to me, fortunately I have backups) is using dolphin to move a
symbolic link to another directory, then deciding to delete the link. In this
bug, dolphin moves the original file rather than the link, so the user ends up
deleting the original file and is left with the broken link. This bug makes
dolphin unusable for file management tasks involving symbolic links.

Another way to reproduce the bug
In a directory, do: touch t1; ln -s t1 t2
in dolphin, select t2 (the link), press ctrl-X and just see that it's actually
t1 (the original) that is visually greyed as the file that will be moved.

I attempted to bisect between v22.12.3 and 23.04.2 but got a bad merge base. (I
am not very proficient with these, I just understand it cannot pinpoint the
commit precisely.)
The merge base c193c45a30e96e77a6b733eb6c5774ec8986911c is bad.
This means the bug has been fixed between
c193c45a30e96e77a6b733eb6c5774ec8986911c and
[6db97c1ee3818527828e941844570b7eb76600d5]

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