F-Droid, the free and open source software Android app store , has upgraded its build and distribution infrastructure . F-Droid’s infrastructure is all based on Debian, but previously all application builds were done on the older version Debian 9 “stretch” released in 2017, F-Droid is now being upgraded to the latest Debian 11 “bullseye”. Upgrading the server version isn’t as simple as typing apt-get upgrade, the developers took the opportunity to significantly revamp the build process, making app builds relatively easy on Debian as the base OS. F-Droid must provide a platform to build thousands of applications, not just upgrade the base image at will.
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