#1124715 pulseaudio: stop building with lirc?

#1124715#5
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2026-01-05 21:51:26 UTC
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Hi,

pulseaudio builds a module for interfacing with lirc, and for this
build-depends on lirc. At the same time pulseaudio is also in the key
package set, thus pulling in lirc into the key package set too.

Unfortunately lirc seems mostly unmaintained. It also depends on
libusb, which we want to get rid of.

Given the popcon data for pulseaudio-module-lirc, I'm wondering if
pulseaudio could consider dropping pulseaudio-module-lirc.

There may be other reasons keeping lirc in the key package set, but
it's a bit hard to tell with the infrastructure we have.

Best,
Chris