Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> writes: > Have I got that right?
Yes, I think you have summarized the issue accurately. > However, for Debian and for the Technical committee, we need to consider > what experience we want to give all our users and as a result value > damage caused by false positives more highly than the upstream project > might. This does seem reasonable, but I haven't seen a concrete technical proposal that would meet this goal. Ian suggests asking the user, which seems like a fine goal, but I don't think there's any plan for how to make this work in practice? I made a suggestion (without my TC hat on) to not install modemmanager by default. This is obviously easy to implement, however it also clearly breaks the user experience for anyone who needs to use a modem to download additional packages (e.g. modemmanager). What I'd love to see is a patch that makes modemmanger behave better for our users while remaining installed and operational. If it's useful enough, it should be acceptable upstream as Debian is not the only community affected by this particular problem. (If only the USB standard had a class definition for 'serial device' that was separate from 'modem device'.) -- -keith
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