[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#545982: Acknowledgement (lirc-modules-source: does not compile with 2.6.30-1-686)

[A Mennucc]

hi,

I was looking into svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-lirc/lirc/trunk/

I am puzzled

I see that, you are not upgrading to the latest upstream
(currently 0.8.5 , since May 2009 - but before that there was
0.8.4a in Oct 2008) ; but rather, whenever a new
kernel has entered in Debian, you have 
backported many patches into 0.8.3 to try to support it.

Why? 

I am asking, because IMHO opinion upgrading to 0.8.5 would
be the simplest way of solving these issues; also
there is a bug 517507 asking for 0.8.4a , to support
some more hw.

But since you went to great effort, maybe there are issues.

If otherwise you just need some manpower, feel free to ask.

a.