/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/ is in lirc 0.9.0-0ubuntu1.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
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/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/DENON.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/MOTOROLA.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/NEC-pulse.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/NEC-short-pulse.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/NEC.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/RC-5.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/RC-6.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/RCMM-32.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/RECS80.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/SANYO.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/SONY12.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/SONY20.conf
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/generic/XMP