[Android-tools-devel] Bug#790978: android-platform-build: library transition may be needed when GCC 5 is the default

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

All of the android-* packages must be updated to the latest version at the
same time.  It is more unpredictable to have android-* packages at different
upstream versions since no one is running that configuration, and upstream
does not do anything to support that (e.g. no versioned ABI, etc).  Therefore,
the ABI is guaranteed to be compatible since they'll all be built together.

In practice, this means that the process of updating to the latest upstream
version has to start from the most core packages, then progress to the ones
that depend on it.

That said, this private shared library arrangement allows for security patches
in the android shared code to be applied without having to rebuild everything.

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