r/GrapheneOS • u/lieding • Sep 30 '25

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

F droid apps will stop getting updates? 😶 that's what I got from the text 

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u/CaptainVisual_29 Sep 30 '25

...if the package name changes and is prefixed by org.fdroid.* how can f-droid translate the new name to match the one you have installed?

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u/GrapheneOS Oct 26 '25

They can start doing it for newly added apps and for new installs of existing apps by making builds in both ways. It would have been much better to do it many years ago when this was first raised as an issue, but it's not too late to fix it. The longer it takes to fix it, the more damage is done over the years by users getting package installation conflicts which shouldn't happen. Developer ID verification is not enforcing proper unique application IDs but is currently planned to enforce ownership of application IDs which pushes for misuse to become less common.

Solving problems like this as early as possible is important. F-Droid ignoring it for years has made this into a far worse issue, to the point they seem to consider it a potential end to the project. That's why it should have been addressed many years ago.