F-DroidSep 6, 2025

PSA: If you haven't updated #K9Mail to 12.0, please don't update it. It will crash on start if you use the unified inbox. The bug has been fixed in 12.1 and will be available in the next #FDroid update. #Thunderbird is not affected, kind reminder to consider switching as K-9 will go away in the future anyway.

Workaround for now: Make a widget for a single mailbox, then you can open K-9, you can change accounts and disable unified inbox.

Show threadJoshixSep 6, 2025
@fdroidorg could you mark the update as not auto-installable?
Show threadF-DroidSep 6, 2025
@joshix It's not that simple, see https://f-droid.org/2025/07/24/twif.html
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Show threadJoshixSep 6, 2025
@fdroidorg mhh, so there's nothing to mark an existing version as "yanked" or something similar?
Show threadF-DroidSep 6, 2025
@joshix We can mark it "disabled: crashes" today, but it needs a new cycle to process it and apply it.
Show threadNeatNitSep 6, 2025
@fdroidorg @joshix It sounds to me like you should prioritize figuring out ways to apply low-risk patches (like disabling certain releases) to the repository in between cycles. I know I'm "back-seat driving" but this isn't the first time this has happened, and you must know that many users (probably the majority) don't follow you on here.
Show threadMatteꙮ Italia
@neatnit @fdroidorg @joshix especially because we are in a lose lose situation: on "regular" Android you cannot downgrade, and if you have an F-Droid build it's impossible to upgrade to a version from upstream even though they already fixed and released it.
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Show threadJoshixSep 7, 2025
@cvtsi2sd @neatnit @fdroidorg in this particular case downgrading didn't help me. I think with reproducible builds it would be possible to install a build from upstream directly.
Show threadMatteꙮ ItaliaSep 7, 2025
@joshix @neatnit @fdroidorg isn't the APK going to need the same signing keys from upstream to be compatible? But those surely cannot be shared, unless the idea is "I re-run the build, check that the result is the same as the original APK and then ship the original one".
Show threadNeatNitSep 7, 2025

@cvtsi2sd @joshix @fdroidorg That's exactly the idea. In so many words: https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

Edit: apparently the expression "in so many words" doesn't mean what I think it means, oh well

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