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The thing is that changing the app id requires too much patching to thousands of apps, and the users will not be able to migrate from the current f-droid version.
F-Droid does automated patching already, they often remove “anti-features”. The migration is a PITA, but not the end of the world, Kiwix did that recently (split into Play Store and F-Droid versions).
That patch is manually added. Moreover, some apps have hard binding with their id, making the situation more complicated.
Kiwi is not on f-droid at all. They host their own version. It might be easier for the app authors to do it. But f-droid maintainers don’t have this capacity.
The thing is that changing the app id requires too much patching to thousands of apps, and the users will not be able to migrate from the current f-droid version.
F-Droid does automated patching already, they often remove “anti-features”. The migration is a PITA, but not the end of the world, Kiwix did that recently (split into Play Store and F-Droid versions).
That patch is manually added. Moreover, some apps have hard binding with their id, making the situation more complicated. Kiwi is not on f-droid at all. They host their own version. It might be easier for the app authors to do it. But f-droid maintainers don’t have this capacity.