Unusual tags message when building android (Froyo/Gingerbread/Honeycomb)

[Divya Pavagada]

Hello,

I see a lot of these messages

unusual tags development eng user on <package name> at <path> - add
your app to core.mk instead

Are we not supposed to use these (user/eng/development) tags anymore?

Should we use LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := optional

and define LOCAL_PACKAGE_NAME := myApp

and use PACKAGE name in our product makefile?

Is this the correct practice? If not please explain why these warning/
suggestion messages are displayed when building android.

Thanks!

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Indeed, we're moving away from using user tags: we found that they
made it too easy to end up with more files installed than intended.

As part of the process to investigate those I found that some people
had typos in their tags and I added a warning whenever an unrecognized
tag is found. I don't think that development is a known tag.

Starting with Honeycomb, user tags are forbidden, and IIRC the legal
values are debug, eng, tests, combinations of those, and optional.

JBQ

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