The Android source repositories are quite chaotic. They often include a mix of things under arbitrary umbrellas. For example, there are parts of this particular repository that will only ever be built when building the complete Android OS (aka "target"), other parts that are only built as part of the SDK to support building Android apps (aka "host"), and other parts that are used both in the SDK and the Android OS. Most of the source code in this particular repostory will never be built or included on Debian because it is only used in the Android OS. It is possible to see which sections will be built for what by looking at the Android.mk files. The parts that are meant for the "host" system, in this case Debian, will have lines like this in it: include $(BUILD_HOST_EXECUTABLE) include $(BUILD_HOST_JAVA_LIBRARY) include $(BUILD_HOST_SHARED_LIBRARY) include $(BUILD_HOST_STATIC_LIBRARY) The build targets that are only for Android OS builds instead have this: include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE) include $(BUILD_JAVA_LIBRARY) include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY) include $(BUILD_STATIC_LIBRARY) A given chunk of code that is built both for "host" will have both of these lines included in the Android.mk file. Structure of the package's git repository ----------------------------------------- The source code has been excerpted form the git repository https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base The Android project does not release tarballs of their core software. Unlike the other source packages in android-tools, this package source repo is not configured following git-buildpackage's "No upstream tarballs" setup because the upstream git repo is so massive, it is basically unmanageable. It can peg your CPU for minutes while checking out a branch or tag. Instead, the source tarballs are generated from the upstream git repo based on the android-* tags. Use get-orig-source rule in debian/rules to generate upstream tarballs. Omitted files ------------- All of the files in the upstream make for an almost 1 GiB tarball. So only the section that are currently used are included in the tarball. Check the debian/copyright for details. -- Hans-Christoph Steiner Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:15:12 -0400 -- Kai-Chung Yan Sat, 28 Nov 2015 16:39:54 +0800