[Android-tools-devel] automating build-tools version

[殷啟聰]

Hi Hans,

Sorry to pick up this topic after so many days.

I think this is doable. We can install all Build-tools binaries into
/usr/lib/android-sdk/build-tool/debian, and provide the symlink to it
in `android-sdk-build-tools`. Thus we only need to track the
BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION in src:android-sdk-meta and keep all packages
consistent.

But as the result, all programs of Build-tools can't rely on
BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION, but I guess no program relies on that. So far I
can only think of the Gradle plugin who reads the BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION
from the installation path, but I don't see a point if one uses the
Gradle plugin with only a subset of Build-tools installed.

And I don't think libgradle-android-plugin-java, a Java library
package, should depends on anything other than other Java libraries.
But we can put `android-sdk-build-tools` into the Suggests section.

Cheers,
Kai-Chung Yan

2016-02-08 17:50 GMT+08:00 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>
> I was just looking at android-platform-frameworks-base, and saw this bit
> in debian/rules:
>
> # See sdk/build_tools_source.prop_template in platform/development
> export BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION = 23.0.1
>
> This should be automated to prevent bugs.  I think we can do it
> something like how upstream does it: including a source.properties file.
>  For example:
>
> /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/source.properties
> /usr/lib/android-sdk/build-tools/23.0.2/source.properties
>
> Then any package that is building pieces of build-tools should then read
> that file to get the right version.  For that to work reliably, we might
> need a standard symlink, like:
>
> /usr/lib/android-sdk/build-tools/current/source.properties
>
>   or
>
> /usr/lib/android-sdk/build-tools/debian/source.properties
>
> .hc
>
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