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@mwarning mwarning commented Aug 12, 2025

Needed as a workaround for reproducible builds by F-Droid until the baseline.prof is reproducible.
This MR would enable the inclusion of bitchat into F-Droid.

Relevant discussion: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24907#note_2682765032

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Needed as a workaround for reproducible builds
by F-Droid until the baseline.prof is reproducible.
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@callebtc this is a workaround for f-droid build problems (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709).

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709

It's not related

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@licaon-kter thank you for the clarification.
Neverthless, this MR is needed for the App to be published on F-Droid.

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callebtc commented Aug 16, 2025

Thank you for helping with the froid submission process

@callebtc callebtc merged commit b86f2cd into permissionlesstech:main Aug 16, 2025
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mwarning commented Aug 16, 2025

Thank you, I hope that will be enough to get into F-Droid.

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@callebtc the original build issues have been resolved. But BitChat Android now includes non-FOSS software (Google tracking facilities) and that is not allowed for Apps that want to be listed by F-Droid.

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Thank you, I hope that will be enough to get into F-Droid.

Any updates?

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mwarning commented Aug 24, 2025

@callebtc the inclusion of Apps that depend on libs.gms.location is not allowed for F-Droid:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24907#note_2704652160

So either this needs to be replaced or we have to give up. I also feel irritated that BitChat now sends GPS coordinates over the Internet (and also to Google).

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