[Android-tools-devel] bookworm: what needs doing?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey all,

I've been sorting through the status of packages for the bookworm freeze. 
Normally at this point of the cycle, I'm panicking at all the things that need 
to be fixed in order to keep all the packages in the release.  But things are 
looking pretty good!  Yay for team maintenance, thanks all for those who kept 
things in bookworm!  Looks like it was Roger, Jochen, Thorsten and maybe others?

As far as I can tell, the only things that have not made it into bookworm are:

source: android-framework-23
binaries: android-sdk-platform-23,
           libandroid-23-java,
           libandroid-uiautomator-23-java

source: android-platform-external-doclava
binaries: doclava-aosp


Personally, I think it is finally time that these packages were removed from 
Debian.  It would be nice to have a more recent version of 
android-sdk-platform-*, but those packages have been a ton of work to update and 
maintain.  Now we have "sdkmanager" in Debian/bookworm, so it is easy to get the 
Google binaries (with proprietary license :'-(.  Just do:

sudo apt-get install sdkmanager
sudo mkdir /opt/android-sdk
sudo chown $USER /opt/android-sdk
sdkmanager "platforms;android-33"

Going forward, I think a better way to solve these packages is to make free 
rebuilds using beuc's android-rebuilds work.  If anyone wants to work on that, 
F-Droid can provide server resources for running builds and hosting the binary 
artifacts.

.hc