Re: problem with lirc over network under Ubuntu 18.04

[Alec L. <lea...@gm...>]

On 28/12/18 21:31, Michael Markstaller via LIRC-list wrote:
> 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.


When you are using Ubuntu ýoy are not in your own world. Instead you are
in the Debian/Ubuntu world. This world, formed by volunteers, is
governed by a set of rules.

While all of us working with packages tries to make smooth upgrades
there is occasionally situations where a breaking update like this is
required. This is according to the Debian/Ubuntu rules, and nothing
strange.

Bottom line: lirc as of 18.04 is not "broken" because it was a breaking
update (except perhaps in your own world).

That is not to say that there is no bugs in it. Some of those could have
been fixed much sooner if users could have filed bugs. The embarrassing
fact that lirc-config crashes on start in Debian could for example have
been fixed long time ago with a simple bug filed.

Cheers!
--alec