[Android-tools-devel] Packaging android-headers for libhybris

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Jeremy,

thanks for this mail.

On  Fr 09 Okt 2026 17:30:17 CEST, Jeremy Bícha wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to package libhybris [1] for use in Debian Lomiri [2] [3]
> packages. libhybris depends on android-headers. More specifically, the
> project provides a script, utils/extract-headers.sh, [2] to extract
> the specific headers it needs from the Android source code and add a
> few files the libhybris build expects like android-headers.pc and
> android-config.h.
>
> The output of the script is available here for Android 11 (2020) (API 30):
> https://github.com/Halium/android-headers/tree/halium-11.0
>
> There are other versions in other branches but that is what the Ubuntu
> Touch project appears to be using now.
>
> I see that several different packages are available in Debian but they
> don't provide the right set of files needed. There is a little
> duplication:
> android-libcutils-dev ships the files needed in the cutils/ directory
> (plus a few more files).
> android-platform-system-core-headers ships some of the files needed in
> the system/ directory.
>
> I propose creating a new Debian package
> named android-headers
> versioned 11~halium~20260606
> shipping files in /usr/include/android/11/ :
> /usr/include/android/11/android-config.h
> /usr/include/android/11/cutils/android_filesystem_config.h
> etc.
>
> I prefer to use the name android-headers since that's what this
> project is known as in the libhybris community. We could also name it
> something like android-headers-libhybris if we need to be more
> specific.
>
> The package could be comaintained in Debian by the Android Tools and
> Debian UBports teams. It's the Debian UBports team that wants this
> package, but the Android SDK and tools are generally packaged in the
> Android Tools team.
>
> [1] https://github.com/libhybris/libhybris
> [2] https://lomiri.com/
> [3] https://wiki.debian.org/Lomiri
> [4]  
> https://github.com/libhybris/libhybris/blob/master/utils/extract-headers.sh
>
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha

Please note that a lot of the packaging work already exist in Ubuntu  
Touch and Droidian land, for Ubuntu Touch, here some links:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/packaging/libhybris
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/hybris-support/android-headers

And more (binder plugins, drivers, etc.):
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/hybris-support

Esp. note that patches that Ubuntu Touch ships in libhybris:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/packaging/libhybris/-/tree/ubports/latest/debian/patches?ref_type=heads

IMHO, I would use libhybris packaging from UBports as a starting point.

Mike

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