Re: problem with lirc over network under Ubuntu 18.04

I couldn't agree more Michael
Another indication of something broken is when users ask for help they
get ignored without any offer of help.
happy new year
Richard




On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 21:31 +0100, Michael Markstaller via LIRC-list
wrote:
> Am 28.12.18 um 20:49 schrieb Alec Leamas:
> 
> > lirc being broken was finally raised as a bug in [1]. As evident
> > from
> > the bug the statement "lirc is broken" is plain wrong.
> 
> Well this is how you translate "broken".
> 
> Broken is, if an update doesn't "just work" without manual
> intervention
> - at least in my world.
> 
> > However, some users have had problems doing a correct upgrade. The
> > upgrade requires manual steps as described in
> > /usr/share/doc/lirc/README.Debian.gz.
> 
> So it is broken.
> I have good reasons to have a box based on Debian lenny with an
> ancient
> lirc version- as it "just works", no upgrade (=fail) required :-)
> 
> Michael
>