Comment 7 for bug 550369

If, like me, you got caught out by this when upgrading to lucid recently, I've made a package in my PPA that fixes the problem using the upstream patch. I've installed this package on my production MythTV box and it works fine. At the time of writing this comment, the builds are done but not yet published though.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~julian-edwards/+archive/lirc/

Hopefully someone will push a fixed package up to lucid soon :)