Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:01:37 +0100 > - Would it also be possible to fix the FSDG compliance by: > - Making a script to filter out non-fsdg compliant f-droid packages, > by filtering out packages with anti-features > - Asking f-droid people to maintain a separate repository for > Replicant without the packages with anti-features. > - Asking f-droid people to use that separate repository on Replicant > (they can probably detect that the Android distribution running is > Replicant). > This would fix the Replicant FSDG compliance issue, and not get > Replicant unlisted from the list of fully free (Android) > distributions.
I need to look into this. At the OHSW workshop, we tried to build F-Droid using the Debian Android SDK, so it would be possible to work on the app without the need to install the Google SDK (among other reasons). But we were not successful at the time. An important aspect should be how easy it is to update such a setup. If the F-Droid maintainers are willing to maintain such a separate repository, would it be easy to move new apps into the Replicant repo and newly found non-free apps out of the repo? Detecting Replicant in F-Droid and then applying changes is probably the only way to get these changes accepted in F-Droid. The script could be done by us and we update it ourselves. Considering all of this, why not create a blacklist that is easy to update? The blacklist is created by the script and called by F-Droid during parsing of the app list of the repo. We then only need to make merge requests to update the blacklist and otherwise help to improve their antifeature marks. I fear that by simply filtering out apps with antifeatures as it is currently planned in the upstream bug[1], too many are filtered that are actually free software. Having our own blacklist would mean a lot more flexibility when it comes to deciding which apps should be hidden. Best regards, Wolfgang [1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/564 -- Website: https://fossencdi.org OpenPGP: 0F30 D1A0 2F73 F70A 6FEE 048E 5816 A24C 1075 7FC4 Key download: https://wiedmeyer.de/keys/ww.asc
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