Re: problem with lirc over network under Ubuntu 18.04

[Michael M. <mi...@ma...>]

Am 28.12.18 um 20:49 schrieb Alec Leamas:

> lirc being broken was finally raised as a bug in [1]. As evident from
> the bug the statement "lirc is broken" is plain wrong.
Well this is how you translate "broken".

Broken is, if an update doesn't "just work" without manual intervention
- at least in my world.

> However, some users have had problems doing a correct upgrade. The
> upgrade requires manual steps as described in
> /usr/share/doc/lirc/README.Debian.gz.

So it is broken.
I have good reasons to have a box based on Debian lenny with an ancient
lirc version- as it "just works", no upgrade (=fail) required :-)

Michael