Re: Welcome to the "LIRC-list" mailing list

On Sat, May 4, 2019, at 12:40 PM, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> <snip>
> That is not the complete message returned by the command you ran. It
> should also have given you instructions on how to actually obtain the
> source of the package on your OS.
> 
> On my laptop, which runs Ubuntu 16.04, it returns the following:
> 
> $ apt-get source lirc
> Reading package lists... Done
> NOTICE: 'lirc' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version control
> system at:
> lp:~mythbuntu-dev/lirc/ubuntu
> Please use:
> bzr branch lp:~mythbuntu-dev/lirc/ubuntu
> to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
> (... rest omitted ...)
> 
> So if I then run
> <snip>
Thank you Jan:

I am not familiar with the etiquette for this forum so please excuse me if I am sending too much information back.

Below is the output from my apt-get source. It yields information on "python-lirc" and updates. Running the "git clone" command generates a "python-lirc" directory which appears to have packaging information but no source code.

root@StevenPi:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat raspi.list
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ stretch main ui staging
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
deb-src http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ stretch main ui

root@StevenPi:/home/pi/source/lirc# uname -a
Linux StevenPi 4.14.98-v7+ #1200 SMP Tue Feb 12 20:27:48 GMT 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

root@StevenPi:/home/pi/source/lirc# apt-get source lirc
Reading package lists... Done
NOTICE: 'lirc' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
https://github.com/tompreston/python-lirc.git
Please use:
git clone https://github.com/tompreston/python-lirc.git
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Skipping already downloaded file 'lirc_1.2.1-2.dsc'
Skipping already downloaded file 'lirc_1.2.1.orig.tar.gz'
Skipping already downloaded file 'lirc_1.2.1-2.debian.tar.xz'
Need to get 0 B of source archives.
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in lirc-1.2.1

I appreciate your help.
Bryan Hunter