[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1052537: arduino: please make dialog/check for dialout group optional or allow for remembering 'ignore'

[Andreas B. Mundt]

Package: arduino
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: andi at debian.org

Hi,

we use arduino in schools where the users are centrally provided and
the dialout group exists only on the local machine.  To access the
serial interface, additional configurations are in place to give
everybody access.  Now, every time arduino is started, students have
to choose 'ignore' on the popup dialog.

It would be great if either:

  • this dialog can be disabled somehow (preseed a debconf question)
or
  • it remembers the answer of the user, like another button:
    [Ignore and remember decision]   
or
  • detects if access to the serial interfaces is really not granted

Probably there are even better solutions, but you get the idea.
Thanks for packaging arduino!

Best regards,

  Andi