[Android-tools-devel] android-tools-fsutils support

[Chirayu Desai]

Hi,


On 12/20/2016 01:15 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Hey Chirayu,
>
> If you can do the packaging work, I can review and upload it ASAP.
On it. Adding simg2img and friends to system-core.
Will also add make_ext4fs and friends to system-extras.
We had that in android-tools-fsutils package, and it's needed as it
contains some android specific options which are not in the generic
mkfs.ext4
>
> .hc
>
> Chirayu Desai:
>> Hello Senthil,
>>
>> Both of those tools are built from source code present in
>> the android-platform-system-core repo.
>> We could build them from the src:android-platform-system-core for debian.
>>
>> It wouldn't need too much effort too.
>>
>> We should also look at any other packages left out during the transition,
>> as this is a useful utility, to be able to convert the sparse images
>> Android uses into standard raw images, which can then be mounted and poked
>> at. Vice versa for img2simg.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chirayu Desai
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:28 PM Senthil Kumaran S <stylesen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to know about support for android-tools-fsutils package in
>>> future releases of Debian beyond jessie. I could see android-tools-*
>>> packages are getting replaced. What are the plans for
>>> android-tools-fsutils?
>>>
>>> To be more specific, I want to know which package will provide the
>>> following utilities in future?
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/simg2img
>>> /usr/bin/img2simg
>>>
>>> Thank You.
>>> --
>>> Senthil Kumaran S
>>> http://www.stylesen.org/
>>> http://www.sasenthilkumaran.com/
>>>
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