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amiga386 • today at 8:17 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Great! But why hasn't 2.0 installed automatically on all devices that already have F-Droid?

- go to F-Droid -> Updates. "Congratulations! Your apps are up to date."

- refresh the repositories. "Congratulations! Your apps are up to date."

- search directly for f-droid in apps. "This app was built for an older version of Android and cannot be updated automatically."

*facepalm* never change, F-Droid. You might not be able to automatically update the app because of Android API restrictions, but there's no reason your app can't tell me it knows there's an updated version I could be asked to apply manually, is there?

EDIT: it still says version 1.23.2 is "Suggested" even when 2.0 is installed. Perhaps this is a reason? Nonetheless, there's no setting to choose a different version policy, i.e. install 2.0 because it's newer, even if not "Suggested"

What does "Suggested" even mean? According to https://forum.f-droid.org/t/how-does-f-droid-suggest-a-versi... it's set manually by the person maintaining the metadata, which makes it even more of a facepalm if F-Droid are announcing 2.0 on their homepage but nobody set CurrenVersion=2.0 in their own metadata.


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luoc • today at 8:44 PM

According to the post they only start to roll this out now, gradually...

warkdarrior • today at 9:43 PM

The beauty of open source is that you can build your own version of F-Droid that works the way you want. See https://github.com/f-droid/fdroidclient