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You won’t be able to update an F-Droid app with an Obtainium one, but Android is already warning about those, not allowing automatic updates from mixed sources.
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).
I don’t see the issue:
…and things go back to normal.
You won’t be able to update an F-Droid app with an Obtainium one, but Android is already warning about those, not allowing automatic updates from mixed sources.
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).