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[Alec Leamas <783202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The bug is five years old, the buggy init scripts described are not
present in current systemd start up configuration and the patches does
thus not apply. I'm closing this one, referring to the 0.9.4c changelog.

lirc (0.9.4b-0.1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * First shot on major upstream updates.
    - Re-packaged from scratch based on new dh primitives.
    - Thanks for help on debian-mentors!
  * New upstream release 0.9.4
    - Release 0.9.1 .. 0.9.3 was never packaged.
    - Old 'lirc' service split into separate systemd services:
      lircd.service, lircmd.service and irexec.service.
    - Remote definitions moved out of lirc to new project
      lirc-remotes; affects large number of LP issues.
    - Builds also on FreeBSD 10.3.
    - Fixes "Not updated to last version" (Closes: #777199),
      LP: #1443590.
    - Fixes "Default device for mode2 is /dev/lirc" (Closes: #702140).
    - Fixes "/var/run/lirc contents disappear..." (Closes: #676343).
    - Fixes "lircrcd segfaults" (Closes: #780062).
    - Fixes "'/etc/init.d/lirc restart' is broken" (Closes: #782091).
    - Fixes "Prompting due to modified conffiles..." (Closes: #655969).
    - Fixes "LIRC installs bad udev rule" (Closes: #804397),
      users depending on this rule will need to explicitly start lircd.
    - Fixes "lirc init script can create circular symlinks", LP: #698007.
    - Fixes "Update Uploaders List (Closes: #762554).
    - Fixes "Please switch to libftdi1" (Closes:  #810370).
    - Fixes LP: #153457 "iguanaIR support not functional".
    - Fixes LP: #460027 "using lirc init script restart function fails
      sometimes".
    - Fixes LP: #499588 "lirc udev rule causes unreliable startup".
    - Fixes LP: #567519 "lircd(8) mentions non-existent
      /dev/input/uinput".
    - Fixes LP: #1029604 "mce remote doesn't work due to out of date
      lircd.conf.devinput".
    - Fixes LP: #1312287 "lircd start problem".
  * The built-in irman support is moved to the lirc-drv-irman package.
  * Revised package structure: keep old liblircclient0 (renamed to
    liblirc-client0). Adding new packages liblirc0, liblirc-dev and
    lirc-doc. Former liblircclient-dev merged into new liblirc-dev.
  * Don't overwrite existing lircd.conf file.
  * Ship sysV scripts from the svn tree [Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]
  * Add handling of obsolete 0.9.0 udev rule restarting lircd
  * Old lircd output socket link /dev/lirc dropped. Use
    /var/run/lirc/lircd.
  * Updated copyright
  * Update compiler flags: -Wl,as-needed + hardening
    [Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]
  * Avoid negative architecture deps like [!hurd] (Closes: #634807)
    [Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]
  * Add patch 0007-tools-remove-configs-symlink.patch + explicit link
    to walk around #801719 (dh_python3 shortcomings).
  * Last parts of libirman dependencies removed.
  * Changing Vcs-* headers to point to upstream packaging branch.
  * Fixes existing large number of upgrade bugs.
  * Enhance hardening flags.
  * Add a lintian pbuilder test, this requires --hookdir and B92-test-pkg
    therein.
  * Tested (build-wise) on stretch and sid.

 -- Alec Leamas  <leamas.alec@xxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 26 May 2016 11:14:25
+0100


** Changed in: lirc (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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Title:
  lircmd is not started properly by lirc init script when devinput is
  used

Status in lirc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lirc

  lircmd (lirc mouse daemon) must be started with the -u option when
  devinput is used.

  This is not done correctly by the /etc/init.d/lirc startup script if
  the lircmd is started by specifiying

      START_LIRCMD="true"

  in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf.

  If /etc/init.d/lirc:

  		if [ "$START_LIRCMD" = "true" ]; then
  			[ -d "/var/run/lirc" ] || mkdir -p "/var/run/lirc"
  			log_daemon_msg "Starting remote control mouse daemon : LIRCMD "
  			start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/lircmd < /dev/null
  			log_end_msg $?
  		fi

  is changed to

  		if [ "$START_LIRCMD" = "true" ]; then
  			[ -d "/var/run/lirc" ] || mkdir -p "/var/run/lirc"
  			log_daemon_msg "Starting remote control mouse daemon : LIRCMD "
  			start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/lircmd -- -u < /dev/null
  			log_end_msg $?
  		fi

  it works in devinput mode . (there is also a restart section further
  down that needs editing)

  However, this is not the right way to do it in the general case, since it will not work if devinput is NOT used.
  Some trick to select when to use/not to use the "-u" switch must be applied.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: lirc 0.8.7-0ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 6685460b8fac740db235bfc82bb22a5d
  CheckboxSystem: fc73f07fcd9845bb95fa3ca6b8be7ef2
  Date: Sun May 15 23:18:42 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: lirc
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-03 (12 days ago)

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