[Android-tools-devel] Serious bugs and errors in android tools and gradle build process on Debian 10 Buster.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Alexander:
> В Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:59:02 +0200
> Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> пишет:
> 
>> Am 16.08.19 um 06:46 schrieb Alexander:
>> [...]
>>> Even in AUR of Arch linux has that repositories.
>>
>> You will not find a single Java package in AUR that was really build
>> from source. They often just install precompiled binaries or use
>> precompiled binaries to build software. This has nothing to do with
>> free software in my opinion, it is just a cheap way to create some
>> wrapper around an upstream binary file.
> But this works.) If I need to make android program they can do it.
> I'm not cry. I love a free software with open source. But if open
> source package can't help to make my work is bad. ;(
> Tomorrow I make my first android program in Windows and Android Studio.
> It works! I'll try to compile this projects in Debian later.
>>
>> Debian is completely different in this regard by ensuring that we
>> control the sources for all of our packages but this requires a lot of
>> work.
> Debian has a non-free repositories too!) But android is an free
> software with open source or not?
> 
>> If you want to make a difference please help us to maintain Java
>> software the Debian way.
> If it were that simple become a Debian developer.) Many policies,
> rules. If you want that so more people help to you than simplify
> process of joining the development team ;).

You don't need any official status to contribute.  Just fork the package
repo on salsa.debian.org, and submit merge requests.  That simple.
https://mentors.debian.net provides another way to post your changes for
review.

.hc