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ccomeaux
Please update the version on f-droid
The version of the app on F-Droid is 4.8.4, whereas the latest release here is 6.4.2. Is it possible to update the version on F-Droid? Thanks!
I don't know what F-Droid is. Someone else must have posted the earlier version there. I don't mind updating it if someone can give me some guidance on how to make it happen.
I'm sorry, I had assumed someone involved with the package had uploaded it themselves. F-Droid is a repository for open source/free software apps on Android. Apparently they have some sophisticated machinery that fetches and builds APKs. I don't know what happened to this particular app but I posted on the forums at https://forum.f-droid.org/t/boardgamegeek-app-outdated/1159. I will report back. Thanks for your time!
I don't know what F-Droid is. Someone else must have posted the earlier version there. I don't mind updating it if someone can give me some guidance on how to make it happen.
F-Droid is a free and open source 'app store' for android. Or rather a free software repository like Debian/Ubuntu/etc. Every app that is distributred in the main repo is built from source using only free software.
We are trying to not add apps without their authors knowledge or consent but this was done in the past, so that's the reason why you never heard of your app being distributed in F-Droid.
The version of the app on F-Droid is 4.8.4, whereas the latest release here is 6.4.2. Is it possible to update the version on F-Droid? Thanks!
The reason why fdroid can't build and distribute newer versions of this app is that it now includes crashlytics libraries which are non-free software.
As everything else is open source it would be doable to provide a separate gradle build-flavour which doesn't depend on the crashlytics library which could be built by fdroid.
If you would be okay with merging such an option I can work on implementing this and provide a PR for you.
That would be great indeed, I just cannot login with the version in F-Droid. Better get a more recent version and avoid reporting a bug that may have been fixed already :)
This would be especially good now that F-Droid has been pulled from the app store.
Almighty @ccomeaux , Thou have a free help offer here – please enlighten us, what is Thy will? ;)
Hello @ccomeaux,
currently we cannot get https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2202 done, as this issue here isn't done yet.
If there is no activity here or in the F-Droid issue in the next 4 weeks, we will close our issue to reduce the number of open issues. In our wiki you can see more details about this process.
Please contact us when you need help.
Thank you for helping us spreading FOSS apps in the world :)
Hello,
we've just closed https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2202 as mentioned above.
We keep this issue here open, as it is still relevant. Please reopen our issue, or open a new one, if you want, after this issue here is done.
Of course, you can contact us if you need help.
Thank you for helping us spreading FOSS apps in the world :)
I think @IzzySoft could help with this, providing this app on his fdroid repository 👌
My repo doesn't feature games (or game related apps), sorry – with very few exceptions e.g. for educational games (learning quizzes and such).
As the culprit is a proprietary tracking lib, can't you provide a FOSS build flavor coming without that? Or switch to a FOSS alternative (find some alternatives here)?
@Bubu : Does your offer still stand? According to #58 @ccomeaux would accept a PR.
According to https://github.com/ccomeaux/boardgamegeek4android/issues/58 @ccomeaux would accept a PR.
That comment is from ~7 years ago, so I'd like some affirmation that it's something the project is actually still interested in. The app was removed from Gplay though, so maybe it's a more interesting topic than before to pursue alternative distributions channels.
Otherwise I've been on BGG a bit more again recently, so I might play around with this a bit.