The upgrade of media-tv/v4l-utils to 1.20.0 from 1.16.6 might warrant at least an elog warning, as that has several backwards incompatible changes with the way many users may be using ir-keytable. The upgrade broke my remote control functionality completely and I was able to get it working after reading this: https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?t=3729&start=30 The changes that can affect existing users are the following, as far as I'm aware: 1. The format of the output of ir-keytable changed, so any users who are parsing that output to determine parameters needed to load keymaps may have things break as I did. 2. The -d parameter to specify the input device in /dev is no longer supported. Only the -s (--sysdev) parameter (for the rcN to use) is supported. ...but most importantly: 3. While the old version documented the KEYMAP file as being in toml format (and I'm not sure if that actually worked) most users tended to use keymap files with nothing but whitespace delimited hex keycodes and their key...for example: 0x3085c031 KEY_0 0x3085d028 KEY_1 0x3085d029 KEY_2 ...etc... That format does NOT work at all in 1.20.0 and a toml format file that includes the protocols as well (as documented in a new "man rc_keymap") is required. I'm probably not the only one who got blindsided by this one, and the fact that the 1.16.6 ebuilds were also removed made it difficult to downgrade until I figured all that out. Frankly I don't get the impression that upstream has ever documented any of that stuff too well. Thanks!
Sorry to hear that. I haven't used IR stuff in many years so I was unaware. Did the changes come in with 1.20.0 specifically? If so, would this suffice? > WARNING! ir-keytable has changed significantly from version 1.20.0 so you may need to take action to avoid breakage. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/767175 for more details.
Yes that change appears to be specifically in 1.20.0 as far as I know. If it existed in any lower version it certainly wasn't one ever available as an ebuild for sure. Any yes, that warning should do. It's certainly a lot better than finding out by having things break. Upstream seems to have blindsided everyone with that one so there's really only so much you can do. Thanks!
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dc1b5c0c07541e052cfef7698574c25c109b0360 commit dc1b5c0c07541e052cfef7698574c25c109b0360 Author: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-10-24 15:55:46 +0000 Commit: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-10-24 20:22:23 +0000 media-tv/v4l-utils: Add warning about ir-keytable changes Sorry this is a bit late! Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/767175 media-tv/v4l-utils/v4l-utils-1.20.0.ebuild | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
