Comment # 9 on bug 856501 from David Haller

(In reply to Srinidhi B S from comment #8)
> I didn't mean to suggest that it should be done this way - I just wanted to
> convey that some other less drastic options could have been looked at rather
> than completely removing fish / SSH functionality.

That's what I did. But after hours, I gave up. And sftp is working just fine.

> But today, I tried to reproduce this issue on my local build of mc where
> I've enabled fish using the steps mentioned in upstream bug / ticket, but
> wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Looks like
> "mc-vfs-fish-deleted_source_file.patch" does prevent the deletion of the
> source file. But one side-effect of this patch is that you get disconnected
> from remote SSH server!

Hm. That's good to hear. Well, you have a head start with that patch,
pointing you to where stuff is done, I for one think that fish is broken by
design and am not willing to spend much more time on that code. But I will
spend time assessing and testing patches disabling only or fixing the "move"
action.
In that case, I'd be glad if you reopen this bug. Else, go bugger upstream ;)