Bug#1057689: minetest: calls home for upstream version check

[Andrew Ward]

Hi,

I have no idea how to check what changes have been made due to the poor UX of the debian website. I would just like to point out that the correct way to disable the update checker is to pass -DENABLE_UPDATE_CHECKER=0 to cmake. You don't need to patch defaultsettings.cpp or minetest.conf

Also, if you disable the update checker it would be great if you could update Minetest quicker, at least in Debian testing

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 22:32:23 +0100 David Heidelberg <david at ixit.cz> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> as a workaround you can set empty `update_information_url` in 
> `~/.minetest/minetest.conf`.
> 
> For Debian developer maintaining minetest, this can be patched in 
> `src/defaultsettings.cpp` same way by setting it to empty string.
> 
> Please, consider this message also as a request to bump minetest up to 
> 5.8.0 version.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> -- 
> David Heidelberg