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Automate additional priv-apps permissions

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#874 opened on Aug 22, 2020

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Description

Something should be added to the crawler/build scripts to extract and automatically add new required permissions, I should think.

Originally posted by @osm0sis in https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/issues/873#issuecomment-678505040

The fix would go in add_sources.sh in the main repo. I do not have the time to add this but AOSP has a python script that is most of the way there.

Originally posted by @NicholasBuse in https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/issues/873#issuecomment-678526394

This would fix ongoing bad builds from updated APKs causing bootloops for the masses, which are only being fixed reactionarily currently.

AOSP script: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/development/+/master/tools/privapp_permissions/privapp_permissions.py

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Implement automation to extract and add required priv app permissions using the AOSP privapp permissions.py script, integrating it into the add sources.sh build process.
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shellpython
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