[Android-tools-devel] Android Tools and GNU/Hurd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey Roger,

We need to use experimental in the regular maintenance of the supported archs, 
so the porting work slows down the regular maintenance.  We already cannot keep 
up with the regular maintenance, so more porting work in the Android Tools git 
repos and experimental/sid releases will make than even worse.

I'm not a porter, so I don't know the limitations of the porterboxes.  Like I've 
said before, before these packages can be ported here to other arches, there 
needs to be a lot more contributions to the regular maintenance of the archs 
that upstream supports (amd64 and aarch64).  Otherwise, we'll end up with these 
packages being removed from all arches in Debian.  You are free to do whatever 
you want outside of the team (forks, porterboxes, etc).

.hc

Roger Shimizu:
> Dear Hans,
> 
> I think there must be something misunderstanding.
> I just want to port android tools to platforms as many as possible.
> Uploading to experimental is just to confirm it can build on buildd,
> and won't cause any regression to other architectures, and it won't
> affect testing migration on pending.
> I need to upload, instead of working in private salsa repo, because
> only uploading to debian can check build on  buildd and auotopkgtest
> on multiple architectures.
> Porterbox has many restrictions, such as cannot install local built
> packages, and can only install from uploaded packages.
> 
>> https://salsa.debian.org/android-tools-team/admin/-/issues/22
> 
> Thanks for this info!
> I'll look at it.
> 
> BTW. Currently seems testing migration is done, so we can continue the
> next upload.
> I'm going to upload android-platform-system-core again, since previous
> experimental upload confirmed working well [1].
> 
> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=android-platform-system-core&suite=experimental
> 
> Of course, if you still don't agree with above, I will stop the upload.
> Thanks for your understanding!
> 
> Cheers,
> Roger
> 
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 6:29 PM Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hey Roger,
>>
>> I see you're trying out a GNU/Hurd port.  I think GNU/Hurd is a great
>> project, so I'm not saying anything about that.  Right now, the Android
>> Tool packages require tons of work even to support the platforms that
>> upstream support.  I just did weeks of work on this update.  I won't
>> have that kind of time going forward.  So we cannot afford to add any
>> more work to these packages, like trying to support GNU/Hurd, unless
>> someone commits to providing weeks of dedicated work per year only on
>> the android-platform-*.
>>
>> Additionally, there first would need to be work to reducing the work
>> required to update these packages.  Chirayu has sketched out a new
>> approach to the "platform-tools" source package which should reduce the
>> amount of work required to do an update.  We really need contributions
>> there:
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/android-tools-team/admin/-/issues/22
>>
>> So I kindly ask you to stop using the Android Tool Team setup to do
>> further porting work, like uploads to experimental, the main git repos,
>> etc.  You can do whatever you like in forks.  At risk is the total
>> collapse and removal of the android-platform-* packages from Debian.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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