Please update gnome-lirc-properties to 0.2.6
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gnome-lirc-properties (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-lirc-
gnome-lirc-
This is at least a problem with the popular StreamZap remote control, because recent versions of lirc in Ubuntu fail to write a correct /etc/lirc/lird.conf configuration file when the user tries to configure it during lirc install. gnome-lirc-
Here is the full list of changes from the NEWS file:
0.2.6:
* Check the lirc configuration files at startup and offer to fix them if
necessary.
(Mathias Hasselmann)
* Auto-detection: Write the configuration files even if the auto-detection
result is the same as what was currently selected, in case the
configuration files are incorrect.
(Mathias Hasselmann, Murray Cumming)
* Handle some other small errors while parsing/writing configuration files.
(Mathias Hasselmann)
* Build:
- Add -disable-
- Cleaned up the .desktop file.
(Bastien Nocera)
* Documentation:
- Updated the screenshots.
Related branches
Changed in gnome-lirc-properties: | |
assignee: | nobody → christophe.sauthier |
Changed in gnome-lirc-properties: | |
assignee: | nobody → christophe.sauthier |
A recent lirc package had another change that broke gnome-lirc- properties' support for the popular Snapstream Meda Firefly receiver. I strongly suggest that you upgrade to fix these problems, caused by the lirc package. It seems risk free.
Here is the full list of changes from the NEWS file:
0.2.7:
* Try to restart the key listener when it fails. This seems to happen sometimes, Firefly_ R1000" in the configuration files, because
and the restart is usually successful.
(Mathias Hasselmann) Bug #529909
* Ask for PolicyKit authorization before rewriting a broken configurations at
startup.
* Support the Snapstream Firefly even when it is called "Snapstream Firefly"
instead of "Snapstream_
this seems to have changed in debian/ubuntu's lirc package.
* Fix a crash at startup when the configured remote control's name is no longer
in the lirc configuration files in the lirc package.
(Murray Cumming) Bug #529854.
* Do not lose vendor, model and contributor names when re-opening custom
configuration.
(Murray Cumming) Bug #530504.
* Improve error handling with upload and update.
(Murray Cumming) Bug #529853 and Bug #529903
* Use bug-buddy.
(Bastien Nocera) Bug #530360
* Improve keyboard mnemonics
(Murray Cumming) Bug #530349 (Wouter Bolsterlee).
* Improved strings for translators.
(Murray CumminG) Bug #530348 (Wouter Bolsterlee).