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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
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you're right, thanks for letting me know
then I don't understand it either why it can't be updated directly
Because there will be a signature mismatch. Apps built by F-Droid will use the F-Droid signature, reproducible apps will use the dev signature.
If an app doesn't support reproducible builds, the version you can download from F-Droid was built and signed by F-Droid, not by the dev