[Android-tools-devel] Packages in NEW, copyright files

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am 2014-09-18 um 21:52 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>>
>> Hey Bernhard,
>>
>> Thanks for your note, sorry for the slow response, I was traveling.  
> 
> Hi Hans-Christoph,
> 
> now it's me who was slow to reply. Sorry, been kinda busy during the
> past couple of weeks.
> 
>> It is my
>> intention to get all of these packages included in jessie, so your help is
>> most appreciated.  I just included your patch to
>> android-platform-frameworks-native and am in the process of re-uploading.
>>
>> About the other fixes you mention, how about you join the android-tools team
>> and commit directly?
> 
> I sent a membership request via alioth a while ago, but never got any
> answer. Also, alioth doesn't allow re-applying. Maybe you can grant me
> membership now that Marcin has promoted you to admin? (I'm ockham-guest
> on alioth.)

I added you as a "co-maintainer".


>> As for whether this is a complete development environment environment,
>> unfortunately there is still quite a bit of work left to do.  My goal was to
>> get the tools needed for managing FDroid app repos with the fdroidserver
>> package into Debian.  I won't have time to work on getting the rest into
>> jessie, but I'm happy to help where I can.
> 
> I'm actually an android development noob. Basically, I was thinking that
> before trying it out, I wanted to see if I really had to pollute /opt
> with some *.deb or tarball downloaded from Google, or if there were any
> decent packages already -- or if I could help finishing them.
> 
> That said, do you think you could write a page in the Debian wiki on
> what components are still missing for a) FDroid and b) "out-of-the-box"
> android development using Eclipse (or maybe IDEA, as the SDK seems to be
> migrating from Eclipse to that IDE.) ?

Ok, I'll try to get to that soon.


>> The big one is android-platform-frameworks-base, that one will have to managed
>> differently than the others since the git repo is so massive (> 1GB).  
> 
> What about git archive and git sparse-checkout? (Not that I've ever used
> either of them, but from what I've read, they might be suitable for the
> job ...)

I'm not familiar with either, but I'm open to all sorts of suggestions.

.hc

>> With
>> the others, I have made the repos include the upstream git.  That makes it
>> really easy to manage making source tarballs since Google does not do that.
>>
>> The other big open question is which tags or branches to use?  I have not been
>> able to figure out which tags/branches match Google's SDK releases.  There are
>> so many overlapping version schemes.
> 
> Can't help there either for now, but that question is probably wiki
> material, too.
> 
> Bernhard
> 
>> .hc
>>
>>
>> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've enthusiastically noticed that the team has produced a couple of
>>> packages which are already in the NEW queue.
>>> Then again, I've noticed that they've been there for about a month
>>> already and wondered why that is?
>>>
>>> Once those packages are in Debian, will they be sufficient to start
>>> Android development (for JB/KK?) right away, or is still anything
>>> missing (like an Eclipse plugin)? Are there any docs on how to set up an
>>> Android dev environment on Debian using those packages?
>>>
>>> On another note, I had a quick glance at some of the d/copyright files,
>>> and I think the names of the licenses there should be more streamlined
>>> with [1], e.g.
>>>
>>> Apache 2.0 -> Apache-2.0 [or, equivalently, Apache-2]
>>> BSD (2 clause) -> BSD-2-clause [same for 3 clause]
>>> Todd C. Miller -> ISC [I think]
>>>
>>> Bernhard
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification
>>>
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