Please remove gizmod and all binaries from Oneiric

[Matthias Klose]

Please remove the following:

Package: gizmod
Binary: gizmod, libgizmod3, libgizmod-dev

They have no rdepends.

The package is dead upstream (no VCS commits in several years), not in Debian, and needs non-trivial porting to work with the current boost. It should go.

gizmod version 3.4-0ubuntu4 failed to build on amd64 with GCC-4.6/oneiric
Link to failed build: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110413/+buildjob/2451090

Details about the rebuild:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/033042.html

Direct link to the build log: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110413/+buildjob/2451090/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-amd64.gizmod_3.4-0ubuntu4_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

This log snippet might be of interest, since it triggered the matcher 'Purging chroot-autobuild'.
Excerpt 1437 lines into the build log:

/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/libH/Average.cpp:73:6: error: 'mFillState' was not declared in this scope
/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/libH/Average.cpp:74:27: error: 'mHeadIdx' was not declared in this scope
/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/libH/Average.cpp:79:11: error: 'mHeadIdx' was not declared in this scope
/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/libH/Average.cpp:81:2: error: 'mHeadIdx' was not declared in this scope
/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/libH/Average.cpp: In member function 'double H::Average::average()':
/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/libH/Average.cpp:89:8: error: 'mFillState' was not declared in this scope
/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/libH/Average.cpp:93:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
make[3]: *** [libH/CMakeFiles/H.dir/Average.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu'
make[2]: *** [libH/CMakeFiles/H.dir/all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu'
make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
******************************************************************************
Build finished at 20110422-2229
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
Purging chroot-autobuild/build/buildd/gizmod-3.4

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO Removing candidates:
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO gizmod 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO gizmod 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric amd64
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO gizmod 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric armel
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO gizmod 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric i386
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO gizmod 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric powerpc
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod-dev 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric amd64
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod-dev 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric armel
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod-dev 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric i386
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod-dev 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric powerpc
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod3 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric amd64
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod3 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric armel
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod3 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric i386
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO libgizmod3 3.4-0ubuntu4 in oneiric powerpc
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO Removed-by: Matthias Klose
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO Comment: FTBFS, LP: #770797
2011-09-08 10:19:00 INFO 13 packages successfully removed.

[Ben Shadwick (benshadwick)]

Instructions on how to build with Boost 1.46: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gizmod/forums/forum/467994/topic/4675015

[Ben Shadwick (benshadwick)]

Added an addendum to the sourceforge thread. I was successfully able to compile this under Xubuntu 11.10 Oneiric after making the changes in that thread.

As far as I know, gizmod is the only way I can get my multimedia keyboard keys (volume up/down/mute/etc.) working in full-screen games in Ubuntu, since neither Canonical nor X.Org seem interested in addressing the issue.