Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Keith Packard writes ("Re: Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports"):
> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > This has gone far enough.  I would like to remind you of Constitution
> > 6.3(5)
> 
> Here's what I prefaced my first remark with:
>  (speaking as a Debian user, not as a TC member)
> Perhaps I should have added this to each message I sent?

You snipped the following part from my email:

  Note the point about forums.  If you want to engage in "design of new
  proposals", for example your suggestion to drop modemmanager from
  default installs, you should do that on the relevant mailing lists for
  modemmanager, or network-manager (which normally pulls it in), or
  debian-devel.

  It is not appropriate to use the TC list to advocate a novel and
  radical proposal in this way.

Ian.