That F-Droid even requires to do the build is one of the reasons I created Discoverium.

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Discoverium/

That F-Droid requires to do the build ensures all apps provided by F-Droid are free software (as in freedom) and proven to be buildable by someone other than the app developer

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mschuster91 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> and proven to be buildable by someone other than the app developer

Yup. That's a huge, huge issue - IME especially once Java enters the scene. Developers have all sorts of weird stuff in their global ~/.m2/settings.xml that they set up a decade ago and probably don't even think about... real fun when they hand over the project to someone else.

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edgan 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The issue is more complicated than that.

	▲	twodave 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Do you mean the overall issue or that F-Droid’s guarantees are arguable? The guarantees may not be the whole discussion, but for many they are the most relevant piece. Edit: or perhaps you mean that isn’t the only way to provide such guarantees, which is the implication I got reading your other replies.
	▲	yjftsjthsd-h 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How so?

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devrandoom 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So I should take a binary from a random stranger because trust me bro?

	▲	edgan 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It is a modified version of Obtainium. You get it from the author via GitHub.