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9 votes c/freepost Posted by krt — 9 votes, 6 comments
Since I left F-Droid (and Android/Smartphones) about a year ago, I am looking for a new maintainer to take over. Unfortunately the upstream issue I opened 3 years ago is still not solved in 2018. While Fennec F-Droid is back in the mainline repo and other binary repos do server Firefox, some might still prefer this updater, so as I said: Maintainers welcome. The main task should be to test the last view merge requests and release a new version.
I find it frustrating that Mozilla itself is not distributing Firefox to f-droid. Did you try to get in touch with them and see if they have any interest in using f-droid? Maybe they would be the right people to take over your app.
F-Droid does not accept binaries, so they cannot distribute through mainline repo. Back then I talked lengthly to Moz via Mail, IRC and the Bugtracker and they were not interested in offering an own F-Droid compatible repo. Firefox has already a builtin updater, which is disabled on Android for whatever reasons -- I believie GooglePlayStore policies. Anyway, Moz started to talk to F-Droid people again and they alrady worked on making 3rd party builds easier.
Why does it have to be a binary though? Can't it be built using normal F-Droid procedures (from source)?
I don't know if I have time to take over, but I will test the build and then with those merge requests during the peers jam on Friday.
That would be really appreciated. Once https://gitlab.com/krt/ffupdater/commit/178936f7c0569977a80a9449c5ff0029127efd8b is properly reviewed, there shouldn't be much to do for this app: As long as Mozilla keeps the URLs updated, there should only be housekeeping stuff left.
Okay the installed version shows up after installing via the ffupdater. I started with a phone that did not have firefox installed. I put my repo here: https://notabug.org/vaeringjar/ffupdater I made some changes and put them in the development branch. I planned to also to do the following, but I think I've run out of time today: * build for android-sdk-platform-23 * build for android minimum build target 9 * Added Beta and Nightly channels (need help) https://gitlab.com/krt/ffupdater/merge_requests/10 I will happily keep working on this on a weekly basis. Maybe I will take over maintenance after all.