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	The Android OS requires that for an app to be upgraded in place, it bears the same signature as the currently installed version. This protects against inadvertent installation of an untrusted or unwanted upgrade, and also protects the app's private data, which can only be accessed by that application (or an application that has been granted root access).
	This situation presents a minor inconvenience to users who want to switch from a version signed by one party to a version signed by another. For example, if a user is running a version they installed via F-Droid, and later wish to switch to a version you sign and distribute yourself via another channel, they would have to take the additional step of uninstalling and reinstalling the app. On its own this is not even enough to qualify as a minor inconvenience - however, the consequences of the uninstall are that the app's private data is removed (again, this is for security) so the user will probably want to export that first, and re-import it afterwards.
	We also support reproducible builds, so we can build a version from source and check against your official release. If they match (ignoring the signature) we can then publish your official APK with your signature used. This is a tedious task, since we have to standardize on the build parameters and tools, but it should be worth it in the long run. We also try to verify our own builds and get a lot of binary differences, see [our verification server results](https://verification.f-droid.org/). However, things will improve over time.
	Can APKs signed by my key be included?	ངའི་ལྡེ་མིག་གིས་APKs ལ་མིང་རྟགས་བཀོད་པ་དེ་ཚུད་ཡོད་དམ།
	Yes, for [reproducible builds](../Reproducible_Builds) F-Droid will include your signed APKs in the official F-Droid repo after they were verified as being so. If this fails (e.g. your app can't be built in a reproducible way or when you want to distribute an app with closed-source components or API keys etc.), you can put any APK in your own "[F-Droid binary repo](../Setup_an_F-Droid_App_Repo)", and people can add your repo to their F-Droid client in order to get your APKs.
	Are reproducible builds required?	སྐྱར་སྐྲུན།
	No. But we do consider them best practice and hope you'll consider trying to make your app reproducible. See our [inclusion how-to](../Inclusion_How-To) for more information.
	How can I handle "fsck error in packed object" for my app?
	In order to ensure that our _buildserver_ gets the exact same commits as you put into _git_, [`git fsck`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck#_fsck_messages) is enabled by default whenever new commits are fetched. Enabling _git fsck_ [ensures](https://web.archive.org/web/20230407012910/https://groups.google.com/g/binary-transparency/c/f-BI4o8HZW0) that the commits [match](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck#_discussion) their SHA1 checksum. Sometimes, _git_ repos have corrupt but usable commits in them that cannot be changed since the whole history is based on the corrupt commit. For those cases, we have the [_skipList_](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck#Documentation/git-fsck.txt-fsckskipList) functionality in [_fdroiddata_](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/14014/diffs)
	Can I run my own F-Droid package repository?<a name="Can_I_run_my_own_app_repo"></a>	ང་རང་སྒེར་གྱི་ཨེཕ་རོཌ་ཐུམ་སྒྲིལ་མཛོད་ཁང་འཁོར་སྐྱོད་བྱས་ན་འགྲིག་གམ། ?<a name="Can_I_run_my_own_app_repo"></a>
	Yes! You can also setup and run your own F-Droid repository of apps and other packages. If you also release your own app via other app stores, like Google Play, we recommend that you also include those releases in your own binary repo, for among other reasons, this will provide a source of APKs for [reproducible builds](../Reproducible_Builds). This repository can be a "[simple binary repo](../Setup_an_F-Droid_App_Repo)", which does not use the _fdroidserver_ build system, or you could host your own mirror of the full F-Droid.org repo.

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