[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#848135: 848135

[Alec Leamas]

Hm... thanks for reporting!

That said, what's the problem here, besides the piuparts message?. It is 
perfectly possible (actually, recommended) to run lircd as a regular 
user. When doing so, the output socket is by default created as 
/run/lirc/lircd which will fail unless the directory is 777.

This is really following the systemd tmpfiles.d semantics, where the 
/var/run directories are created py the package but not owned by it. I'm 
still new to Debian, do I miss something here?

BTW, I tried the tmpfiles.d support in the dh_ files (details lost in L2 
cache), but at that point it was buggy. Yes, I should have filed a bug, 
but I didn't. Shame on  me.

In the long run, the proper way would be to change the package to run  
as a regular user and use group permission to access the /var/run 
directory. The short-time "fix" would be to make /run/lircd 755, 
breaking users running lircd (but not the service). I'm not really happy 
to apply such a patch... thoughts?