As you may have noticed, lirc is now broken since several months. Amaya posted a RFA some weeks ago.

My mistake is that I asked her what she was planning to do with it. She answered to this with a "you are now a new project manager on Alioth" (just kidding ;) ). But I managed to get aurel32 working on it too.
The package was really in a bad shape, anyway.

My main problem is that I don't have any hardware to test, but, in fact, for now it did not block me out. Furthermore, one of my co-worker really helped me and sent me several patches. And a new version 0.8.0-1 is now hitting experimental. Please, if you use lirc, consider testing it ASAP.