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The AOSP keyboard was available on f-droid when I installed f-droid, and the f-droid app kept nagging me to replace the keyboard app on my phone with the debloated AOSP version from f-droid. Debloated, in this case, meaning without support for minority languages such as mine.



There's nothing intentional there. If the keyboard you had installed was also distributed via F-Droid using the same APK identifier, then F-Droid just detects an update since it's the same app.

To prevent this (it can happen with most apps distributed both on the play store and F-Droid) you can tell F-Droid to ignore updates for a specific app.


Someone must've uploaded a version with the same package name.

You can open the app on F-Droid and hit the menu button in the top right to ignore updates to the keyboard.

You could also file an issue with F-Droid themselves that there's a package conflict on there.




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