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yanus171 / Handy-News-Reader

Handy News Reader is a light and modern Android feed reader, based on Flym News Reader
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Look into F-Droid "reproducible builds" #918

Open JohnVeness opened 1 year ago

JohnVeness commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, releases on F-Droid and those on Github (including beta releases) use different signing keys, which means it is not easy for an end-user to switch between F-Droid and github or beta releases.

Describe the solution you'd like F-Droid has a thing called "reproducible builds" where you can provide F-Droid with APKs signed with your own key, i.e. both F-Droid releases and your own releases will have the same signing key and so users can more easily switch between them.

Describe alternatives you've considered Continuing with the import/export process as currently doing.

Additional context See https://f-droid.org/en/2023/09/03/reproducible-builds-signing-keys-and-binary-repos.html

yanus171 commented 12 months ago

The reason that fdroid updates occurs very rare is that I try to keep them stable. After I make a release on GitHub there is a small delay before it appears on fdroid

JohnVeness commented 12 months ago

I don't mind infrequent F-Droid updates, and I don't think "reproducible builds" needs to change that. I just was suggesting them as an easier way for people to try your beta versions when needed (e.g. when you release a fix that you want us to test).