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Bug#247138: marked as done (irda-utils: Use output of findchip to configure the package)

Your message dated Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:27:52 +0000
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and subject line Bug#955337: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #247138,
regarding irda-utils: Use output of findchip to configure the package
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Package: irda-common
Version: 0.9.14-18

I have a couple of suggestions for this package:
- it chips with findchip. Shouldn't preconfigure run findchip and use
  that information instead of asking the user whether he/she has a FIR
  supported chip (something I had no idea)

- The init script doesn't deal with FIR chips.
  irattach sends the hostname to proc and so forth, but if you use a
  FIR chip, you don't need irattach, so you need to run the following
  in the init script:
  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery
  echo `hostname` > /proc/sys/net/irda/devname

- The biggest problem however is that FIR will fail to load properly as
  long as you don't have this in the initscript:
  /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none port 0x0 irq 0
  The package should _really_ include a FIR section and disable the serial
  port, otherwise irda will not work at all
  (I spent too many hours having to research this, and wish the package
  had done this for me :-)

Thanks
Marc
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Version: 0.9.18-15+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package irda-utils has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/955337

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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