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[Łukasz Zemczak <1699928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would personally opt for the removal of goget-ubuntu-touch as we don't
have any maintainer of it since at least one or two years - and no one
will really pick it up. My only concern is ubports users as they're
still using the tool to flash their devices with the community-based
ubuntu-touch. This for sure still shouldn't make us want to maintain it,
but I'd like to at least reach out to the community and see if they can
take ownership of the tool.

The most feasible solution I would see is to move the goget-ubuntu-touch
source package to a preferably ubports-owned PPA and then removing it
from the archive so that we're not blocked by it any further. This is
possible even now as I see their magic-device-tool wrapper adds the
ubuntu-sdk-team PPA when looking for ubuntu-device-flash.

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Title:
  Please delete obsolete android binaries

Status in android-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in goget-ubuntu-touch package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in phablet-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  New Request
  ===========
  Please remove phablet-tools and goget-ubuntu-touch and all their binaries from artful. goget-ubuntu-touch does not build in zesty or artful and I don't think anyone is interested in maintaining it in Ubuntu at this time. It can be re-added later if someone volunteers.

  phablet-tools also fails to build (pep8) but I don't think it's very
  useful without ubuntu-device-do and ubuntu-device-flash.

  Background
  ==========
  Since Canonical's Ubuntu phone project is ending and no one has stepped up to maintain Ubuntu's android-tools fork, we are syncing the Android stack from Debian.

  This benefits users by allowing them to use the latest adb and
  fastboot instead of an old copy.

  There are a few obsolete binaries that need to be removed to make this
  happen, because Debian's android-tools is only built for a limited set
  of supported architectures (not ppc64el or s390x).

  
  Original Report
  ===============
  Please delete these binaries:

  android-tools-fsutils for ppc64el and s390x
  ubuntu-device-do for ppc64el
  ubuntu-device-flash for ppc64el

  These are listed on update_excuses.html or update_output.txt

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