On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:25:41 -0700, 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. > > The first option means that users won't end up with a removed driver > module but we would have to keep using the name lirc-utils for what is > called lirc upstream. The second option means that pacman will > auto-remove the wpc87691 driver and a small group of users will have to > manually reinstall the module from [unsupported]. FWIW, Fedora has been > using the package name lirc for what we have been calling lirc-utils for > a long time and the Fedora package maintainer is the current upstream > maintainer. > > Opinions? > > Regards, > Lukas > > [1] > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-October/025541.html > [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/mailman/message/33235360/
And now I understand why I never got LIRC working :P -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
