Gustavo Barros wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 09:49, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > What is the expected semantics of moving a symlink to trashcan?  Is it
> > supposed to move the symlink or its target?  (I'd think it's the
> > former, but maybe my instincts are wrong.)  If the expectations are
> > that the symlink is moved, then all we need to do is to treat symlinks
> > as regular files, by augmenting file-directory-p not to dupe us.
> 
> I'm not sure either, but my instincts are the same as yours. If that's
> any reference, I just tested here, and that's what "gio trash" does
> (moves the symlink, not the target).

Yes, I tried a few graphical file browsers (Thunar, Caja, and Dolphin),
and they all move the symlink, not the target, to Trash.

After getting my test setup straightened out, I think I have a fix for
the symlink issue and for the issue that Gustavo originally reported
(cross-filesystem trashing fails when there's already a directory with
the same name in Trash).

I've committed these fixes separately; see attached.  Gustavo, can you
try these out and make sure they handle your use case(s)?

> > I'm okay with filing another bug report about rename-file, and
> > discussing this there.  But that's a separate issue, and fix of this
> > bug should not depend on that.
> 
> Understood.

Okay.  I'm not planning to follow up on this, Gustavo, so if you'd like
to lobby for a change to rename-file, you'll need to open a bug for it
(if you haven't already).

cheers,
mike