Package: lirc Version: 0.9.4c-9 Severity: normal If you put a line like this in lircd.conf or one of the files it includes:
include "/absolute/path/to/remote.conf" It will be ignored. The problem seems to be bad interaction between these two snippets of code in lib/config_file.c: ~ line 906 (read_all_included): lirc_parse_relative(buff, sizeof(buff), val, name); glob(buff, 0, NULL, &globbuf); ~ line 791 (lirc_parse_relative) if (*child == '/') return child; The caller doesn't actually use the return value of lirc_parse_relative, it assumes buff will be filled ... but it's not. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lirc depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.47 ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libftdi1-2 1.3-2+b2 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-11 ii liblirc-client0 0.9.4c-9 ii liblirc0 0.9.4c-9 ii libportaudio2 19.6.0-1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-11 ii libsystemd0 232-22 ii libudev1 232-22 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-30 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.21-1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii python3 3.5.3-1 Versions of packages lirc recommends: pn gir1.2-vte <none> ii python3-gi 3.22.0-2 pn python3-yaml <none> Versions of packages lirc suggests: pn ir-keytable <none> ii lirc-compat-remotes 0.9.0-1 pn lirc-doc <none> pn lirc-drv-irman <none> ii lirc-x 0.9.4c-9 ii setserial 2.17-50 -- Configuration Files: /etc/lirc/hardware.conf changed [not included] /etc/lirc/lircd.conf changed [not included] /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/devinput.lircd.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/devinput.lircd.conf' -- debconf information excluded