Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans@eds.org> * Package name : android-permissions Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Sven-Ola Tuecke and Hans-Christoph Steiner * URL : http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/android-permissions.git * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: /bin/sh Package source : http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/android-permissions.git Description : create gids that represent Android permissions Android is based on the Linux kernel, but is not otherwise a UNIX operating system. That means that Debian can be installed in parallel with Android, using the same kernel as Android. Android uses Linux uids and gids quite differently than GNU/Linux. Each app has its own uid and gid, and every part of that app runs as that uid/gid. Linux groups are used to represent system permissions, like internet access. This package sets up all of the Android permissions uids and gids in Debian so that you can easily give Debian processes Android permissions by adding the user that process runs as to the group that represents the permission, e.g. aid_inet for network access permission. Specifically, this package adds all uids and gids for each permission listed in Android's system/core/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. This is required in Debian+Android setups created by Android apps such as Debian Kit and Lil' Debi. This only makes sense to install on a Debian chroot running on Android. It should be installed as early as possible in the install process to prevent conflicting user/group names with Debian. This package is based on Sven-Ola Tuecke's 'andromize' package.
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