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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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"We found a vulnerability..." (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can I get more info on why these are showing up? I've never seen such a thing on F-Droid before.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it was mentioned in a This Week In F-droid blog post around September. basically google fucked up an important development library, and any firefox forks (possibly some other apps too) could not be built anymore normally. of course google was unwilling to fix the issue, so linsui (and F-droid member) fixed the build process somehow, possibly temporarily.

you may ask how is this not a problem for the official release of the firefox app, and my answer is that they probably build this component for themselves, and fixed the problem in house (if they had it at all)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Right, but that comment that I quoted from the F-Droid forum makes it sound like there is some sort of issue updating to a build with the vulnerability patched. My Mull is on 131.0.3, and I do not remember having an issue updating it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

You're probably getting your Mull updates via the DivestOS repository, not the official F-Droid repository.