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Bug#743447: marked as done (irda-utils: update irattach manpage to reflect current drivers)

Your message dated Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:27:52 +0000
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and subject line Bug#955337: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #743447,
regarding irda-utils: update irattach manpage to reflect current drivers
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: irda-utils
Version: 0.9.18-12
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The manpage of irattach mentions an old driver (smc-ircc) which is no longer 
distributed in the irda-utils package, while the newer driver that replaces it
(smsc-ircc2) is not even listed in the manpage.

People installing irda-utils are befuddled by the apparent incompleteness
of the irda-utils package, which installs correctly, whereas irattach never 
finds smc-ircc and exits in error.

Considering that
a) some people might still have an old installation of irda-utils built
with smc-ircc;
b) most documentation that can be found on-line, especially the "linux
infrared HOWTO" by Werner Heuser, was written at a time when smc-ircc
was the standard driver, but will be updated to reflect changes in the 
distribution package at best very slowly, if at all;

we suggest to update the manpage for irattach(8) as follows:

REPLACE:
---
smc-ircc SMC IrCC controller driver  (options:  ircc_dma,  ircc_irq).
         This chipset is used by e.g.:

         Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook 635t Sony PCG-505TX
---
WITH:
---
smc-ircc, smsc-ircc2
	 SMC IrCC controller driver  (options:  ircc_dma,  ircc_irq).
         This chipset is used by e.g.:

         Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook 635t Sony PCG-505TX

	 Current versions of the package irda-utils use smsc-ircc2; older
	 versions rely upon smc-ircc.
---

This change minimizes the editing work required to bring the manpage up
to date.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages irda-utils depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  kmod                   9-3
ii  libc6                  2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libpci3                1:3.1.9-6
ii  udev                   175-7.2

Versions of packages irda-utils recommends:
ii  openobex-apps  1.5-2
ii  setserial      2.17-47

Versions of packages irda-utils suggests:
pn  libgsmme1c102  <none>
pn  liblinc1       <none>
pn  obexftp        <none>

-- debconf information excluded

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 0.9.18-15+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package irda-utils has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/955337

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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