Following up to this post https://lemmy.ml/post/31598540
A number of people asked for F-Droid support when I posted about my Lemmy client, and it’s here!
I didn’t notice the scope of some of the app permissions until now, but half of those are unnecessary. I’ll be reducing the scope in the next release to avoid any confusion.
Yeah. F-Droid has some considerable lag in deploying new versions. I’m new to F-Droid but a 3-6 day delay in publishing new versions seems typical.
F-Droid’s big “thing” is reproducible builds. You could theoretically post any artifact to GitHub, so I have to trust that every update the artifact you built matches the source code. F-Droid allows me to know that the artifact matches the source code.
Unless of course you’ve implemented your own reproducible build system.
The caveat here is it means F-Droid has to build your app, which can take some time (but they’re actively working on improving that)
Yeah. Sorry I should have phrased my comment better. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but people should understand that the tradeoff of reproducible builds is a slight lag in updates.
No worries, I just wanted to explain why it takes time in case somebody didn’t know