This is resolved upstream. The reason is that lircrcd (and some others) is using select(2) and related macros which has limitations when the file descriptors becomes > 1024. Which they eventually becomes on a long-running server.
Since this is fixed upstream, I'd say that this bug is blocked on #777199 - Not updated to latest upstream. There are test packages for debian available upstream; you might want to give them a chance. However, wait until the review is completed and the packaging is available on a separate branch.
