Karl Fogel <kfo...@red-bean.com> writes: > Nick <liberationt...@njw.me.uk> writes: >>The wonderful F-Droid already does this, as pointed out in the >>article. So it doesn't seem like a proposal so much as an >>explanation of why it's important. > > F-Droid does a lot of this. I couldn't find a standard way to get the > exact source snapshot a particular app's build comes, nor what the build > parameters were, although via the web site the app pages do give release > numbers. They're hard at work on deterministic builds now, apparently, > and I would guess that some of these essentially UI fixes will happen > along with that. >
That info is in the server metadata file for the app (for example the git tag for the source that was used to build the app, and the build parameters). Probably just needs to be exposed in the UI. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=8096>. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
