[Android-tools-devel] google-android-platform-* packages WAS: android-platform-libcore/6.0.1+r16-1

[Mouaad Aallam]

>
> Its definitely clear that building the android.jar is quite complicated.
>  I think its a good idea to make a package for each platform binary from
> Google and use that for now.  Mouaad already has the template for that
> kind of package quite polished, so we can just use those and it should
> not be a lot of work to make the 24 platforms packages.
>
>
I think it's even possible to handle the 24 platforms in a single package,
by using debconf with multiselect menu !


> Here are some open questions:
>
> * we should handle mirror selection in a global way for all
> google-android-* packages. I guess we could just have
> /etc/default/google-android-installers as the file where that preference
> is stored


I suggested this before, we are having a growing number of
google-android-*-installer packages, I can say I agree with this.


> * In order for any package to have a contrib package in Recommends:, it
> must also be in contrib.  I don't think we should move android-sdk-meta
> to contrib, so perhaps we should have a google-android-sdk-meta or
> something like that to install all the required bits from contrib to
> have a working build.
>
> * android-sdk-meta can have contrib packages in Suggests:, so I think we
> should definitely have some there.
>
>
I agree too with this two last points.


> .hc
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