Bug#817823: [Android-tools-devel] arm64 & armhf builds?

2016-03-28 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
We are only talking about official packages. I think some of the confusion stems from there being an "android-tools" team which manages many packages and an "android-tools" source package, which is the old deprecated approach for building adb, fastboot, and fsutils. I didn't realize that the andr

Bug#817823: [Android-tools-devel] arm64 & armhf builds?

2016-03-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:19:45 +0200 Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > Hey Neil, > > Sounds like you are in the perfect position to do this porting and > maintenance since you are working with lots of ARM hardware, and want > to use the Android SDK on ARM as part of your regular work. No, not the p

Bug#817823: [Android-tools-devel] arm64 & armhf builds?

2016-03-28 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey Neil, Sounds like you are in the perfect position to do this porting and maintenance since you are working with lots of ARM hardware, and want to use the Android SDK on ARM as part of your regular work. So I think the best workflow here is if you start building the android-tools packages on A

Bug#817823: [Android-tools-devel] arm64 & armhf builds?

2016-03-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:36:37 +0800 殷啟聰 wrote: > So, looks like the LAVA team does need adb & fastboot on all ARM > platforms, right? :) It would be useful and IMHO that is sufficient reason to keep arm64 and probably armhf in the architecture list of the source package. The need isn't immediate

Bug#817823: [Android-tools-devel] arm64 & armhf builds?

2016-03-26 Thread 殷啟聰
So, looks like the LAVA team does need adb & fastboot on all ARM platforms, right? :) I was wrong about android-libunwind. Actually I remember it was android-libbacktrace, which is needed by adb, who FTBFS in the other platforms. What if android-libbacktrace still FTBFS on ARM? In that case, adb w

Bug#817823: [Android-tools-devel] arm64 & armhf builds?

2016-03-25 Thread 殷啟聰
X-Debbugs-CC: android-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: codeh...@debian.org adb and fastboot are part of the Android SDK which are only officially supported on x86 platforms. Strictly speaking, Google only supports its i386 version, because the official SDK are mostly 32-bit softwa