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irda-utils package

  1. Bug #340718
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 340718

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

I have reproduced the post-installation failure of irda-utils 0.9.18-8.1ubuntu1 in jaunty and can confirm that the version of irda-utils in jaunty-proposed, 0.9.18-8.1ubuntu1.1, does successfully complete installation with the removal of the call to update-modules. However, the postinstall script still contains the problematic calls to MAKEDEV with:

  cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV irda && ./MAKEDEV irnet

Because of the multiple &&s, /dev/MAKEDEV's non-existence doesn't cause the script (and thus, installation of the package) to fail, but it does result in an error message being reported. It look like udev handles these devices (modprobe-ing irnet results in the /dev/irnet device getting automatically generated) thus the calls to MAKEDEV to set them up statically are probably no longer necessary, but I don't have any irda hardware so I can't verify that everything is working properly.

Given that the package in -proposed at least allows installation to complete, I believe this package is okay to release; marking verification-done.