[Android-tools-devel] New upstream (android-tools-5.1.1+git20150904-0.1) fixes adb not listing newer devices

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey Scott,

To follow up on what seamlik said, we are working to build up the entire
Android SDK in a consistent and practical way, which will ultimately include
all of the parts that are included in the 'android-tools' package.  Then that
package will be removed, since the way it is structured makes it difficult to
maintain (i.e. a manual collection of bits of the Android SDK source code).

That said, if you have an update for 'android-tools' that is tested and ready
to go, I'm willing to upload it to unstable as a short term update.

All of the dependencies for the work we have been doing are included in the
android-tools team git, but they are not all yet uploaded:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/android-tools

.hc

Scott Wakeling:
>> Thanks for the packaging! However we are abandoning android-tools
>> package and adb and fastboot is included in the
>> android-platform-system package.
> 
> android-tools is currently the only package in Debian to provide adb
> and fastboot - albeit older versions that no longer work with more
> recent Android devices.
> 
>> See <
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/android-tools/android-platform-system.git>.
>> The version is now 5.1.1_r8.
> 
> I searched https://packages.debian.org, but there is no
> android-platform-system package in Debian, not even in experimental
> (https://packages.debian.org/experimental/allpackages).
> 
> I cloned the repo you linked to, and tried dpkg-buildpackage, but got:
> 
>   dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: android-libselinux-dev
>   libf2fs-dev libf2fs-format-dev android-libunwind-dev
> 
> I don't know where to get android-libselinux-dev. Again, there seems to
> be no such package in Debian.
> 
> I read at https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools that the following is
> planned:
> 
>   build adb as part of android-platform-system-core package, replacing
>   the android-tools-adb package.
> 
>   build fastboot as part of android-platform-system-core package,
>   replacing the android-tools-fastboot package.
> 
> I downloaded and built android-platform-system-core from source (sid),
> but it does not appear to provide adb or fastboot yet.
> 
> I agree with the sentiment expressed here:
> 
> https://guardianproject.info/2015/04/30/getting-android-tools-into-debian/
> 
> "many people who are not developers at all want to use tools like adb
> and fastboot to access their Android device, or even root it. Having
> them in Debian means they are trivial for people to install, vastly
> easier than trying to figure out how to download and install the
> Android SDK. What lots of people end up doing instead is downloading
> random binaries from insecure internet forums and using those."
> 
> If anybody needs a more up-to-date version of android-tools (adb not
> listing your newer device?), find it here:
> 
> https://github.com/scottwakeling/android-tools
> 
> I think while android-tools is the only package to provide adb and
> fastboot, it ought to be kept up-to-date and maintained.
> 
> -scott
>