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

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@aleksander.es>]

Hey Ian!

> Since the maintainers and upstream evidently disagree with this
> tradeoff, it has been necessary for me to ask the TC to step in.
> 

The maintainers don't actually disagree. Why didn't you bring this issue to the ModemManager mailing list in the first place? I personally don't follow any downstream ModemManager bug, and we even have a bug open upstream:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85007

> 
>  * Say that, in the absence of a better solution, my patch should
>    be applied to modemmanager.
> 

I commented about that patch in bug 683839, please don't apply it, it would break all modems not only those with TTYs. Again, I'd have suggested to bring this patch to the ModemManager mailing list before just saying that the patch should be applied in absence of a better solution... An easier thing would be to allow just "dpkg -R modemmanager", there should be no other package depending on the daemon itself.

-- 
Aleksander