[Android-tools-devel] simg2img (and friends) missing for arm

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

We're happy to accept porting work in the main packages if it doesn't
break things.  Really, the way to support porting to these arches is to
submit patches to Google.  The thing to keep in mind is every little
patch will make it harder to update the whole Android SDK when Google
pushes out new versions.  Its already a lot of work, without enough
people to keep up.

.hc

Nicolas Dechesne:
> hi there,
> 
> i have noticed that simg2img (and related packages) are restricted to:
> 
> Architecture: amd64 i386
> 
> The previous package that is now deprecated (android-tools-fsutils)
> used to provide binaries for arm targets. Is there any specific reason
> why they were left out? I have an application that requires simg2img
> to run on ARM, it's a flashing tool for ARM based board (e.g.
> Dragonboard 410c). I am currently working out of buster, and
> android-tools-fsutils is no longer there, and simg2img is missing for
> arm..
> 
> Would such a change be likely accepted:
> 
> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
> index 6ab44edb..3e092d1b 100644
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Description: Android fastboot tool
>   fastboot mode, etc..
> 
>  Package: simg2img
> -Architecture: amd64 i386
> +Architecture: amd64 i386 armel armhf arm64 mips mipsel mips64el
>  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
>  Breaks: android-tools-fsutils (<< 6.0~)
>  Replaces: android-tools-fsutils (<< 6.0~)
> 
> I am enabling more than ARM, since I think we should simply support
> all arch that we support for the other packages (e.g. such as
> fastboot).
> 
> Note: this patch is not tested yet, I am just trying to understand if
> there is anything I could be missing for now.
> 
> thanks
> 
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