Intent of packaging to Debian

[rogers0]

Dear @Androxyde,

I'm interested in packaging your software to Debian.

However I didn't find your license for your project. So I'm writing to ask.
I know there're a few files non-free, and not suitable for Debian, I can remove it before uploading to Debian archive. Here I just want to know what's your main license for this project.

Thank you!

Cheers,
Roger

[Androxyde]

Hello @rogers0, you can bundle it for Debian without any problem. There is nothing proprietary in the linux tarball :-)

[rogers0]

@Androxyde thanks for your prompting response!
we still need you to specify a proper license for the project, and I need to create a debian/copyright file before uploading.
Example of debian/copyright can be found here: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#examples
thanks!

[Bin4ry]

Hey Roger, we discussed this and we are not sure what to choose since we never cared about it. Anything you would prefer? Best Regards Andreas

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[apteryks]

Hi! I'd like to package this as well for GNU Guix; if you don't have a preference for the choice of the license, may I recommend the GPLv3+? It's a good copyleft license that ensures the sources remain free.

[Bin4ry]

Hey, thanks for the input. License added. :-) BR Andreas Apteryks <notifications@github.com> schrieb am Fr., 29. Sep. 2017 um 03:26 Uhr:

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[rogers0]

Thanks for resolving the license concern!

There's another issue when packaging for Debian.
Debian need every package to be built from source, which means I cannot simply add any jar file.
So I'm trying to build one by one.

I read the BUILD.md, and when I run:
$ ant -buildfile ant/setup-linux.xml binaries
there's a error which I cannot figure out:

main_lib:

JRE:
     [exec] tar: ../../../Flashtool/jre/linjre.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
     [exec] tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
     [exec] Result: 2

And I cannot find linjre.tar either in jdk/jre or in your git repo.
Could you kindly inform me how to get the jar? Thanks!

[rogers0]

Now I understand linjre.tar is JRE for linux. We just need to depends on JRE on debian. So we actually don't need this linjre.tar.
Problem solved for that.

I meet another issue: how to build all the src under src/ folder?
I guess it generates x10flasher.jar, but I don't know how to build it.

[derMart]

A debian/ubuntu package would be awesome, any progress with this?

[rogers0]

@Androxyde @Bin4ry @derMart
Finally it's hitting Debian archive:

• https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xperia-flashtool

I patched a bit to meet Debian requirement:

• no embedded jars, use all system java libraries
• no use git clone devices repo
• use libusb-1.0 system library

Next target is packaging devices repo.