On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 at 20:25:41, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > Hi, > > This was discussed back in 2013 already [1]; we should drop the > remaining LIRC kernel driver shipped with lirc and move it to > [unsupported]. It has been declared dead by upstream in [2]. I am going > to do that when bumping the lirc package to 0.9.2. > > There are two options: > > * Move the lirc package (which contains only the kernel driver) to > [unsupported] and keep the lirc-utils package (which is the official > LIRC project). > > * Rename the lirc-utils package to lirc and upload the lirc driver > package to the AUR under another name. I would suggest wpc87691, as > that is the only kernel module from lirc that is not included in the > kernel yet. This requires a news entry on the front page. > [...]
I went with the second option. You can find the new lirc package in [testing]. There are several other upstream changes in 0.9.2 which I will mention to the announcement on the front page. If you need the wpc8769l driver, please use lirc-wpc8769l from [unsupported].
