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

[殷啟聰]

Hi Anant,

I'm so happy to know others get interested in our work. :)

For now we are out of manpower... So for the time being, there's no
plan for backporting Android 6 SDK to Jessie. And we are also focusing
on updating the SDK to 7 before Stretch freezes.

Therefore, probably not much luck for Jessie users now. :(

Best regards,
Kai-Chung Yan

2016-06-01 15:58 GMT+08:00 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
>
> 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 The Debian 8/jessie version is out of date.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
>>



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