[Android-tools-devel] Apktool

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Markus Koschany:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have packaged Apktool and its related build-dependencies.
> 
> I had to package the gradle-jflex-plugin [1] and installed maven
> artifacts into src:jflex. Usually apktool bundles all its dependencies
> in apktool.jar as one big fatJar. For Debian I decided to install single
> artifacts into /usr/share/apktool and put them all on the classpath.
> This appears to be working now but I would appreciate if someone did a
> few more tests before I'm going to upload the package. Please grant me
> write access to android-tools, so that I can push the changes.

I believe that you need to join the android-tools team to get git push
access.  I added you, I don't know if you need to accept that invite or not.


> Apktool has one licensing issue because
> com.mindprod.ledatastream.LEDataInputStream has a usage restriction
> (non-military) and thus is non-free. I don't expect a short term
> solution for that from upstream hence I repacked the tarball and patched
> the affected sources.

Yeah, I remember discussing this with someone, perhaps you.  If it works
without that class, that's great.  Otherwise, there are free
replacements.  Let me know if we should handle that in the package, or
with upstream, or both.

.hc