FWIW, an upstream packaging effort is under way. The sketch is available as branch 'debian' in the git repo at [1]; a repo view is available at [2].
It will be merged sooner rather than later. Please file upstream bugs as required. Of course, to maintain an upstream package is not ideal. However, the upstream silence in this bug makes this move necessary. It's not what we want to do, for sure. The git branch is unstable and might be rebased any time. [1] git://git.code.sf.net/p/lirc/git [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/debian/tree/debian/
