What are you experiencing as the problem now? If you have the package installed, you manually edit lirc.postinst, and then run dpkg-reconfigure lirc that should succeed without the error.
I couldn't say whether this will make it into Precise. I'm not an Ubuntu maintainer.
What are you experiencing as the problem now? If you have the package installed, you manually edit lirc.postinst, and then run dpkg-reconfigure lirc that should succeed without the error.
I couldn't say whether this will make it into Precise. I'm not an Ubuntu maintainer.