Re: [guardian-dev] call for help: Java/Gradle advice so we can keep the Android SDK in Debian/buster

2019-03-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This was the tip that finally solved it! Here's the commit: https://salsa.debian.org/android-tools-team/android-framework-23/commit/a54bfa906afc9b139f1f6c1a99f76effec301a3e .hc Michael Rogers: > Hi Hans-Christoph, > > As far as I can tell, "javac --patch-module" won't get you where you >

Re: [guardian-dev] call for help: Java/Gradle advice so we can keep the Android SDK in Debian/buster

2019-02-12 Thread Michael Rogers
Hi Hans-Christoph, As far as I can tell, "javac --patch-module" won't get you where you need to go. You could create (perhaps using symlinks) the directory structure it's expecting, where the root of the package namespace is inside a directory named after the module (e.g.

[guardian-dev] call for help: Java/Gradle advice so we can keep the Android SDK in Debian/buster

2019-01-31 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
The Debian Android Team has been packaging the Android SDK with 100% free software and reproducible builds. The standard Android SDK binaries from Google have a non-free license and are built with ~13GB of mystery binaries they call "prebuilts". There are two key packages from the Debian