>>>>> "Aleksander" == Aleksander Morgado <aleksan...@aleksander.es> writes:
>> In going forward, I think it is important to consider that
>> Modemmanager's needs and Debian's needs may be different here.
>> In the case of Modemmanager as an upstream project, it may be
>> desirable to give the best experience for users who do have
>> modems. 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.
Aleksander> Would the new approach satisfy Debian's needs?
So, I'm only one member of the Debian technical committee.
I suspect that since the matter has been referred to us, we're likely to
rule.
I haven't seen other TC members give opinions. Myf suspicion is that
we're likely to try and give general guidelines to the Debian
modemmanager maintainers and let them choose a specific solution.
I'd be happy with guidelines that said something along the lines of
by default, programs in Debian should not access a serial device unless
they have high confidence that such a device is the kind of device they
are trying to use.
I know that sounds horrible and we'd have to word-smith it into
something that people could understand without being part of this
conversation.
I'd expect that if the guideline were along those lines, the Debian
modemmanager maintainer would conclude that the new approach was
sufficient. I suspect if someone brought it back to us later we'd
support such a conclusion from the maintainer.
If you don't see action before then, I expect we'll have some internal
discussion in our next meeting near the end of October.
--Sam
