Bug#877024: Modemmanager probing of unknown Devices

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

Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Bug#877024: Modemmanager probing of unknown Devices"):
> Given there's no indication they were made aware of your bug filing that
> I could find, I don't think that's a conclusion we can make.

In my message on the 25th of September I wrote, in prose, that I
intended to escalate this issue to the TC:

   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683839#77

I got no response, so I filed #877024.  When I did so, the BTS sent
this mail CC the maintainers:

   From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System)
   To: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
   CC: debian-ctte@lists.debian.org,
    pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
   Subject: Processed: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports
   Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:51:06 +0000

   Processing control commands:

   > block 683839 by -1
   Bug #683839 [modemmanager] modemmanager fiddles with ttyUSB devices without asking first
   683839 was not blocked by any bugs.
   683839 was not blocking any bugs.
   Added blocking bug(s) of 683839: 877024

   -- 
   683839: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683839
   877024: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877024
   Debian Bug Tracking System
   Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems

This is indeed not an ideal as a way to draw the escalation to the
maintainers' attention.  (None of the traffic in #683839 explicitly
mentions the TC.)  I should have used X-Debbugs-CC to CC my initial
report of #877024 to the maintainers.  Sorry for not doing that.

I'm happy to wait a bit longer to see if the maintainers have an
opinion.

Thanks,
Ian.