F-Droid users in danger because of exaggerated purity rule

[thore]

F-Droid is not a single repo, but a place where everyone can create their own repo and start distributing software.

100% this.

The main F-Droid repo is FOSS-only for good reasons, and thousands of people choose the main F-Droid repo because they want software that they trust to be FOSS.

There are dozens of other repo with different, often less strict inclusion rules.

Known Repositories

This is a list of known stable repositories. testing repositories archive repositories abandoned repositories These repositories are compatible with an F-Droid client application. The F-Droid project is not responsible for any third party repositories. To manually add a repository, copy a repo link. Then open F-Droid. Go to settings. Select Repositories. Go to the “+” on the top right and paste the link there. Select ‘add’. The repo will appear on the Repositories list in your device. Just …

So no, we shouldn’t relax the rules of the main repo. People are free to use other repos.

For the main repo, what we should do, is “get better” at building new releases “timely”. However, that is a long standing issue, has been discussed in many places, and has no easy solutions. There’s the build cycle taking a few days. And there’s Firefox being painful to build. See Fennec and Mull update delayed and other forum threads.