Re: [Replicant] [PATCH] Remove F-Droid until we can make a FSDG compliant version

[ni nhar]

> Yes, check out the page
>
https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Porting_Replicant_to_Android_9
> for current status.

Thank you.

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Re: [Replicant] [PATCH] Remove F-Droid until we can make a FSDG compliant version

[ni nhar]

> I'm focusing my efforts on Replicant 9

Do you say, a replicant 9 for the samsung phones is
on its way?

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Re: [Replicant] [PATCH] Remove F-Droid until we can make a FSDG compliant version

[Joonas Kylmälä]

Hi,

I'm focusing my efforts on Replicant 9, so I just checked the patch
doesn't do anything horribly wrong:

Acked-by: Joonas Kylmälä 

Feel free to push.

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli:
> It's been more than one year that Replicant is aware that
> shipping F-Droid as-is is not compliant with the Free System
> Distrbution Guidelines(FSDG)[1].
> 
> This is beacause we hoped to resolve the issue upstream in
> a timely manner, but that didn't happen.
> 
> As we now focus on a longer term solution[2], it doesn't make
> any sense to keep F-Droid as-is in Replicant.
> 
> That new approach would enable to have an extremely low
> maintenance cost for both F-Droid and Replicant if it
> is merged upstream.
> 
> It would also enable users and developers of other
> Android distributions to use it.
> 
> References:
> ---
> [1]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
> [2]https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/564#note_162158449
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli 
> ---
>  config/common.mk   | 1 -
>  prebuilt/common/Android.mk | 8 
>  2 files changed, 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/config/common.mk b/config/common.mk
> index 332ce37b..e7eeb6e6 100644
> --- a/config/common.mk
> +++ b/config/common.mk
> @@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ PRODUCT_PACKAGES += \
>  WallpaperPicker \
>  SoundRecorder \
>  Screencast \
> -F-Droid \
>  FDroidPrivilegedExtension \
>  RepWifi
>  
> diff --git a/prebuilt/common/Android.mk b/prebuilt/common/Android.mk
> index 137030bd..f15b178c 100644
> --- a/prebuilt/common/Android.mk
> +++ b/prebuilt/common/Android.mk
> @@ -8,11 +8,3 @@ LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := optional
>  LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := EXECUTABLES
>  LOCAL_MODULE_PATH := $(TARGET_OUT_OPTIONAL_EXECUTABLES)
>  include $(BUILD_PREBUILT)
> -
> -include $(CLEAR_VARS)
> -LOCAL_MODULE := F-Droid
> -LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := APPS
> -LOCAL_CERTIFICATE := PRESIGNED
> -LOCAL_SRC_FILES := apps/FDroid.apk
> -
> -include $(BUILD_PREBUILT)
> 
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Re: [Replicant] [PATCH] Remove F-Droid until we can make a FSDG compliant version

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:11:50 +0200
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli  wrote:

> It's been more than one year that Replicant is aware that
> shipping F-Droid as-is is not compliant with the Free System
> Distrbution Guidelines(FSDG)[1].
> 
> This is beacause we hoped to resolve the issue upstream in
> a timely manner, but that didn't happen.
I wasn't aware that F-droid recently implemented a filtering mechanism.

According to what I was told in the upstream bugreport, we would need
to include an xml file with the settings somewhere in /system
or /vendor.

Denis.


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