The irda-utils package was removed in Debian (https://bugs.debian.org /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907453) mentioning the lack of kernel support. Checking the upstream kernel repo, the following commit was part of v4.17:
commit d64c2a76123f0300b08d0557ad56e9d599872a36 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Date: Wed Mar 14 13:12:26 2018 +0100 staging: irda: remove the irda network stack and drivers No one has publicly stepped up to maintain this broken codebase for devices that no one uses anymore, so let's just drop the whole thing. If someone really wants/needs it, we can revert this and they can fix the code up to work properly. Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> This would mean that no Ubuntu kernel after 18.04/Bionic has kernel support. Proposing to remove this package from Groovy onward. ** Changed in: irda-utils (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Stefan Bader (smb) ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #907453 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907453 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1843742 Title: irda-utils ftbfs in eoan To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irda-utils/+bug/1843742/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
