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

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

Wouter Verhelst writes ("Re: Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports"):
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 09:18:37PM +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > How about waiting a bit until patches reviewed and tested upstream?
> 
> The whole point of experimental is "to test and review stuff". It's fine
> if things break there; that's what it's for.

Precisely.

> Having packages in experimental allows for more widespread testing. It
> would seem that in this kind of situation, you would actually want
> that...?

That was my thinking.

For upstream: things in "experimental" are not automatically installed
on user systems (well, unless the user has been exceptionally
foolish), and do not automatically propagate to places where they
might be so installed (let alone, be released).

Ian.

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