As pointed out in bug #28941 by darthanubis (thanks!), this is still an issue. I have just been able to reproduce it by moving /etc/lirc away and running sudo m-a lirc-modules-source using the lirc-modules-source package found in gutsy.
As pointed out in bug #28941 by darthanubis (thanks!), this is still an issue. I have just been able to reproduce it by moving /etc/lirc away and running sudo m-a lirc-modules-source using the lirc-modules-source package found in gutsy.