[Android-tools-devel] removing src:android-tools

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Ximin Luo:
> 殷啟聰:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> Yeah they should "provide" those packages for the transition.
>>
>> Also I remember someone has added another program into
>> src:android-tools which needs to build a bunch of "device" version of
>> liblog, libcutils, adb and other stuff. I think we may need to plan
>> for the future, where our packages will build both "host" and "device"
>> libraries and programs.
>>
> 
> That is in git but was never released (I guess because he thought it wasn't the effort to do another repack of the upstream "source" tarball). But I think all of this stuff is already covered by your excellent new packaging, so now we can just forget about it. :)
> 
> One extra thing though - we should update the android-tools source package to be a dummy transitional package (for each of the binary packages), so that people already have it installed have a good upgrade path.
> 
> X

Maybe you want to do a backport of your android-tools package?  I think
it would be good to have since the current packaging will be a lot more
work to backport.  I'm not really sure its feasible.  And jessie's adb
doesn't work on 6.x devices and maybe even 5.1.

.hc