[Android-tools-devel] Android SDK into Debian

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

(I added the Ubuntu android-tools and phablet-tools maintainers to this
thread)

We've been packaging a lot of the internal headers since we are using
the upstream git repos as the basis for the source packages.  That means
we need to have the internal headers, which we package in android-*-dev
packages.  It looks like you need to support multiple SDK versions with
your android-headers package, that's not something we're doing at all
for the internal headers.  But if you want to have the latest headers in
/usr/include/android, then android-*-dev packages will provide that.

Also, on a related note: we're going to be removing the 'android-tools'
source package quite soon, since we're now building all that stuff as
part of the whole suite of packages.  Also, our packages are Android
6.0.0 while src:android-tools is 5.1.1 in Debian and 4.2.2 in Ubuntu.

You can see the source packages here:
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=android-tools-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org

And here is the documentation of our process and structure:
https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools

.hc

Simon Fels:
> Hey Hans Christoph,
> 
> joint efforts always sounds good.
> 
> However I can speak only for the android-headers package which I
> maintain. The others are a little bit out of my scope. The reason for
> the android-headers package currently is to give us access to the
> various hardware abstraction APIs the Android SDK itself doesn't give
> access to but we need to integrate Ubuntu Touch properly with a Android
> based platform.
> 
> The headers the package contains are extracted from the AOSP trees and
> grouped per platform API level.
> 
> We have to be carefully here and not mix up SDK provided headers and
> those we take directly from the AOSP tree as they both provide different
> level of access.
> 
> What are your exact plans on this? Do you want to bundle headers files
> coming from the Android SDK with the android-headers package? IMHO
> having a android-sdk-headers package would be more what we should do
> then to indicate the important difference between both.
> 
> regards,
> Simon
> 
> On 08.02.2016 08:37, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Hey Ubuntu Android people!
>>
>> I just saw that you recently updated the android-headers Ubuntu package.
>>  I just wanted to check in and see if you're aware of the Debian
>> android-tools packaging team and the packages that we have.  While we do
>> not yet have the SDK headers packaged, we have most of the core SDK
>> tools packaged (including adb, aapt, aidl, gradle, dx, zipalign), and
>> are working fast towards getting a lot more into Debian before the
>> Ubuntu LTS Debian Import Freeze.
>>
>> We should join efforts to move faster and prevent duplicated efforts!
>>
>> .hc
>>
>