[Android-tools-devel] About packaging android-platform-tools and android-platform-system-core

[Roger Shimizu]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:39 PM Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> Thanks for handling this Roger!  I think there are some packages in
> android-platform-system-core that other packages depend on (but I could be
> wrong).  If so, then all the conflicting packages should be removed from
> android-platform-system-core, and left only in android-platform-core.

I think now we reached the time [1] that we have to remove
src:android-platform-system-core from testing and sid.
I'll follow the steps mentioned in wiki [2].

I hope latest android-platform-tools can migrate to testing soon.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1011110
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals

Cheers,
Roger

>
> .hc
>
> Roger Shimizu:
> > Dear Android Tools Maintainers,
> >
> > As you may already be aware, I uploaded a few packages to fix ftbfs
> > issues and hoping to avoid AUTORM being triggered.
> > Good news is that all ftbfs issues have been resolved.
> > Bad news is that I found android-platform-tools and
> > android-platform-system-core cannot co-exist, and we need to align our
> > decision and inform this to release-team or ftpmaster.
> >
> > I guess android-platform-tools is newer version, and it's with Android
> > 11 version.
> > While android-platform-system-core is older, and it's with Android 10 version.
> >
> > Current problem we have:
> > - android-platform-system-core built on all major arches, amd64 was
> > "Uploaded", but failed to be "Installed":
> >      * https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=android-platform-system-core
> > - android-platform-tools built well on all major arches:
> >      * https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=android-platform-tools
> >      * https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=android-platform-tools&suite=experimental
> >    But the migration was blocked:
> >      * https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=android-platform-tools
> >    And some major arches are not built, such as armhf, arm64, etc:
> >      * https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=android-platform-tools
> >
> > I think the actions we need to make is:
> > - Remove android-platform-system-core from sid and testing since it's
> > older version.
> > - Request release-manager to build on all arches, and unblock the
> > testing migration.
> >
> > What's your opinion?
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Cheers,