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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I pushed your update, let's hope it makes it through the NEW queue on time!

.hc

Chirayu Desai:
> I pushed the sparse image tools.
> What we need now is make_ext4fs, and also a dummy transitional package
> to ensure that updates work correctly.
> 
> 
> On 12/20/2016 11:53 PM, Chirayu Desai wrote:
>> 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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