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

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

Aleksander Morgado writes ("Re: Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports"):
> FYI, already implemented an initial approach, ready for testing:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/modemmanager-devel/2017-October/005969.html
> 
> In the Debian case, you would want to use "--filter-policy=STRICT"
> when starting ModemManager.

Thanks.  This is very encouraging.  I would like to test this.

My testing approach would probably be to prepare a Debian package of
this version, based on the existing Debian package.

It might be useful for me to upload such a thing to experimental so
others can try it too ?  Would the Debian modemmanager maintainers
object to that ?

I will do that upload: to DELAYED, picking some suitably cautious
version number, unless I hear to the contrary.  (And I'll wait at
least a week for a reply to this question.)

Ian.

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