configure for devinput should show contents of /dev/input/by-id

The following changes to /var/lib/dpkg/info/lirc.postinst seem to fix the issue. Its working for me. Now have to figure out how to submit this change upstream.

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< EVENTS=`ls /dev/input | grep -v "by-path" | sed 's/^/,\ \/dev\/input\//' | tr '\n' '\0'`
< db_subst lirc/dev_input_device EVENTS $EVENTS_BY_PATH $EVENTS
---
> EVENTS_BY_ID=`ls /dev/input/by-id | sed 's/^/,\ \/dev\/input\/by-id\//' | tr '\n' '\0'`
> EVENTS=`ls /dev/input | grep -v "by-path" | grep -v "by-id" | sed 's/^/,\ \/dev\/input\//' | tr '\n' '\0'`
> db_subst lirc/dev_input_device EVENTS $EVENTS_BY_PATH $EVENTS_BY_ID $EVENTS

Hock, thanks for this! Can you please forward this to Debian? It doesn't need to go to "real" upstream, as this is only a packaging change. But it should be reported as a Debian bug with the patch, see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Please note that your branch changes #DEBHELPER# into the dh_installinit generated code, which should not be done. Please exclude that from forwarding (I'll do that for sponsoring).

See merge proposal, this needs some fixing. Thanks!

Martin,

I need wrote to Stefan Lippers-Hollmann before asking for sponsorship and he informed me that ubuntu lirc deb does not follow Debian lirc deb.

He gave me the follow link for comparison.

http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-lirc/lirc/trunk/debian/lirc.postinst?revision=443&view=markup

This bug was fixed in the package lirc - 0.8.7-0ubuntu2

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lirc (0.8.7-0ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * configure for devinput should show contents of /dev/input/by-id
    (LP: #695767)
 -- BeeHock Goh <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:37:25 +0100