[Android-tools-devel] Bug#738119: complicated

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

What makes it complicated to package all of these Android SDK tools is that
the source code is organized into semi-arbitrary "projects" that are split up
between many different git repos.  Those git repos are then all checked out at
the same time using Google's crazy `repo` tool.  Then the entire Android OS
and SDK are built using a single, unified build system that requires something
like 8 gigs of source code be downloaded.

This 'android-tools' package, like Arch's 'android-tools' package, was created
by manually copying various source files into this package's git repo.  When
trying to build the whole Android SDK, that would be a massive amount of work
to maintain.

For more info, follow the team's progress here:

https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools