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I actually have lirc 0.10.0-2 working again:

I actually had lirc_0.10.0-2 installed and working (and it still does on
my other system)

but for some reason after dist-upgrade and a reboot it was broken.

I followed the workaround listed 0.9, it worked.
I then unmarked the package as held and dist-upgraded again to see if it would work again with 0.10.0 (nope)

I then tried the workaround to 0.9 again! this time nothing worked.
I then did:

sudo apt purge ir-keytable lirc
sudo apt-get install -y lirc lirc-compat-remotes
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
sudo irw

and now my remote is back to working with lirc_0.10.0-2

If I narrow down the exact cause I will post back, its very odd for
sure, but for the moment I am working again with lirc_0.10.0-2

with lirc_0.10.0-2 irw shows output like this:

000000008001006c 00 KEY_DOWN devinput-32
0000000080010067 00 KEY_UP devinput-32
000000008001006c 00 KEY_DOWN devinput-32
0000000080010160 00 KEY_OK devinput-32
00000000800100ae 00 KEY_EXIT devinput-32

under lirc 0.9 for the few minutes I tried the 0.9 workaround irw showed
like this:

000000037ff07bde 00 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
000000037ff07be6 00 KEY_STOP mceusb
000000037ff07be6 01 KEY_STOP mceusb
000000037ff07be9 00 KEY_PLAY mceusb
000000037ff07be9 01 KEY_PLAY mceusb
000000037ff07be7 00 KEY_PAUSE mceusb

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Title:
  lirc broken on 18.04

Status in lirc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Lirc 0.10.0-2 is never configured after installation. Manually running
  "dpkg-reconfigure lirc " also does not do anything. I also noticed
  that /usr/share/lirc/remotes is empty, which is where I had my config
  file for Ubuntu 16.04.

  This was an upgrade install from 16.04.
  Searching the web indicates others have this problem. Some have reverted to the lirc from 16.04. Others recommend using pip3 to install lirc 0.10.10, but I have been unsuccessful so far.

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