Re: [Linphone-users] Linphone for Android rings in Do Not Disturb

[Trent Creekmore]

I am suggesting you go the app directly from the source.


I also like people to from using F-Droid due to the nature of censorship 
they have gone with when a group does not align with their beliefs.



On 7/10/21 7:13 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Trent Creekmore <trent@lindows.org> writes:
>
> > On 7/10/21 2:45 AM, dahxothi@aingunox.e4ward.com wrote:
> > > I'm using Linphone 4.4.3 because that's the latest version available on
> > > F-Droid, added almost 2 months ago.
> > >
> > > https://f-droid.org/packages/org.linphone/
> > >
> > > Please update the version there.
> > How about you update it yourself?
> >
> > https://linphone.org/sites/default/files/linphone-latest.apk
> I'm not sure what you are suggesting.
>
> f-droid does builds and signs them, and ensures that the apks match the
> sources and that they are entirely Free Software.  A lot of things in
> the android world say they are Free Software but have non-Free
> components in their apks.  People choose to use f-droid builds to avoid
> this.  Often apks not from f-droid have google play services included.
>
> Obviously it's up to f-droid people to package, but I see it as an
> upstream responsibility to be buidlable with only Free Software (for
> upstreams claiming that).  Right now there's a build of 4.4.4 queued,
> and I expect that someone will work on 4.5.0 next.