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[Lewis Donofrio <lewis.donofrio@xxxxxxxxx>]

Real question, when will the need for the android crutch be resolved, aka
native grub and all?
On Mar 22, 2013 8:40 AM, "Sergio Schvezov" <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:41:51AM -0700, Christopher Noel Hesse wrote:
> > I guess not. Furthermore I assume we already have the latest Android
> 4.2.1
> > codebase from CM-10.1.
>
> We don't do it automatically. If there is a good reason to though as when
> we upgraded from ICS to JB to get manta support, we will.
>
> > Actually, upgrading to 4.2.2 wouldn't be that clever, because we would
> > loose the ability to use usb debugging using adb before the first actual
> > boot.
>
> There are other issues as well, APIs change and it needs to be worth it
> to move there.
>
> > The new security handling in 4.2.2 forces you to manually whitelist your
> > PC's RSA access key on your device to be able to use the android debug
> > bridge.
> >
> > It should be possible to disable that annoying security mechanism in
> Ubuntu
> > Touch if we want to upgrade to 4.2.2 though.
>
> Yes and it also requires you to setup for adb root, that is one of the
> things we already disable.
>
> There are blueprints or just talk still about:
> - Figuring out what to do with adb long term in Ubuntu once we are on S
> - Changing Android to be in the container and have Ubuntu as the main OS.
>
> Ricardo S, do you have links to these if they already exist?
>
> Cheers,
> Sergio.
>
> PS: I like adb
>
>
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