Difference between F-Droid packages

[shuvashish76]

I see two different apps for KOReader on F-droid.

1. org.koreader.launcher.fdroid - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.koreader.launcher.fdroid/
2. org.koreader.launcher - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.koreader.launcher/

Why two different packages & any major difference? (beside no1 is the latest one with additional android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE & android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permissons)

[Frenzie]

See koreader/android-luajit-launcher#318

As the version implies, the older one is older and it'll remain so. That's pretty much it.

@pazos How hard would it be to update the metadata for the older one to refer to the newer one?

[pazos]

It is on my/our todo list in #8225

I would like to remove the old package to not confuse users but I was told that's not desiderable. The best thing they can do is to archive the old package. It does involve one line change, as explained in https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/9318

[shuvashish76]

Please mention this information here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Android-devices

[pazos]

It is better to fix the underlying issue :)

[pazos]

Why two different packages & any major difference? (beside no1 is the latest one with additional android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE & android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permissons)

The new permissions are required since we bump targetSdk to API30.

MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE replaces READ/WRITE EXTERNAL STORAGE.
QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES is required to find 3rd party dict apps installed. Previous versions didn't require any runtime permission.