[Android-tools-devel] Bug#856001: fastboot reports wrong version

[Senthil Kumaran S]

Package: fastboot
Version: 1:7.0.0+r1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

fastboot gives wrong version number as seen below:

<snip>
$ sudo fastboot --version
fastboot version debian
$ 
</snip>

The version provided above is not useful and creates confusion. The fastboot
binary provided by AOSP platform-tools report the following, which is useful:

<snip>
$ sudo ./fastboot --version
fastboot version 0e9850346394-android
$ 
</snip>

This is important since there are differences in how fastboot packaged in
stretch ie., 1:7.0.0+r1-2 behaves with a Google Pixel phone, than the fastboot
provided by AOSP platform-tools and the one packaged in Debian jessie release.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages fastboot depends on:
ii  android-libadb         1:7.0.0+r1-2
ii  android-libbase        1:7.0.0+r1-2
ii  android-libcutils      1:7.0.0+r1-2
ii  android-libext4-utils  7.0.0+r1-2
ii  android-libf2fs-utils  7.0.0+r1-2
ii  android-libsparse      1:7.0.0+r1-2
ii  android-libziparchive  1:7.0.0+r1-2
ii  libc6                  2.24-9
ii  libgcc1                1:6.3.0-6
ii  libstdc++6             6.3.0-6

fastboot recommends no packages.

fastboot suggests no packages.

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