[Android-tools-devel] Android ADB 6.0.1 in Debian 8

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey Anant,

(cc'ing the Debian android-tools list)

This sounds very interesting, glad to see work built upon ours :)

The Debian 8/jessie version is out of date.  Your easiest path to a more
current package for jessie would be to do a backport of the
'android-tools' source package, version 5.1.1.  You can get that from
git and build it using git-buildpackage (apt-get install git-buildpackage):

gbp clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/android-tools/android-tools.git

For stretch/9, we've entirely restructured the Android SDK packages, and
added a whole lot more, as well as packaging things like apktool.  The
restructuring should make it a lot easier to keep the packages current.
 But they would not be easy to backport to Jessie/8.

If someone is willing to do the packaging work, I think we could
convince the Debian powers that be to accept a newer version of
android-tools-adb into Jessie since the current one is broken for recent
Android versions.

.hc

Anant Shrivastava:
> hi Folks,
> 
> I am working on AndroidTamer which is a Debian 8 modified version with
> Android Specific tools build into it. I realized the version packaged with
> default debian 8 is not able to do a lot of tasks and its essential a new
> version is made available. Assuming how debian prefers stability i don't
> expect debian to release frequently however i was in turn hoping that i
> could compile the android adb tools from sid / strech and backport them in
> my own distro repository available at repo.androidtamer.com (I don't claim
> to be debian standard compilant and neither aiming for it right now) but
> the packages all run fine on debian 8.
> 
> I was hoping you folks could help me if instructions on how i can build
> from the source packages or by directly checking out from the repository. I
> am right now building adb and fastboot directly on AOSP and shipping them
> with my Distro.
> 
> -Anant
>