Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Ian Jackson
<ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.)
>
How about waiting a bit until patches reviewed and tested upstream?
I'm worried about some devices in particular, like Bluetooth DUN based
ones, as I rarely test those and I'm almost certain that I broke them
in strict mode.
As soon as we get this merged to git master, I can tag a 1.8 beta
release (e.g. 1.7.990). What do you think?
--
Aleksander
https://aleksander.es
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