Comment 13 for bug 216104

Here is the response from an employee of Canonical. I can't say it answers your question but I would assume we should keep the bugs open.

6/2/2008 9:42 AM | Etienne Goyer
Usually, we give back any bug fixes that where done in the course of troubleshooting a customer's issue, but we try very hard not to expose the internal process behind it. The support process is somewhat is different than the purely community-driven bug reporting/fixing process, and mixing the two can cause confusion at time. I am not 100% sure, but I think the Launchpad user you quote believe you are a Canonical employee. No big deal, tough, just saying.

In this particular case, and this is all presumption on my part, the fix will likely come in the form of a UVF (Upstream Version Freeze) exception. That is, a new version of GVFS and/or Nautilus will be released as an update to the current version of Ubuntu, rather than having the problem fixed in the current version of Nautilus and GVFS subsystem within the release, as it would if it was of lesser scope. But the decision is not mine, it rest in the hand of the QA and distribution team. I have not received an ETA yet, but they will communicate progress to me in due time, which I will in turn communicate to you. In general, as we have escalated a publically-known bug, progress will also be documented for the entire community to know in the relevant public bugs.

In short: I do not know yet, but peoples are working on it. I will keep you updated!

Many thanks,

Etienne Goyer