[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#721341: owncloud-client: Phoning-home version checks should be disabled in Debian packages

[Axel Beckert]

Package: owncloud-client
Version: 1.2.5+dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Owncloud Maintainers,

everytime I start "owncloud" it shows a popup saying

  A new version of the ownCloud client is available.

  ownCloud Client 1.3.0 is available. The installed
  version is 1.2.5

  For more information see
  http://owncloud.org/sync-clients

This behaviour is inacceptable, because

a) it refers to out-of-band versions, i.e. not packaged and not
   Debian-provided versions of the software which the user is very
   likely not to install;

b) it phones home;

c) it will pop up on every invocation in case the package will be once
   part of a Debian Stable release (where security updates are usually
   done without version bumps and hence will go unnoticed by such a
   check -- one might consider this as unsuitable behaviour for a
   stable release); and

d) it's very annoying despite completely unneeded in an environment
   solely installed via official Debian packages.

So please disable this check (at least by default) in the
Debian-packaged versions of owncloud-client.

TIA!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (899,
  'testing-proposed-updates'), (600, 'stable'), (500,
  'proposed-updates'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-rc4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages owncloud-client depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.17-92+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.8.1-9
ii  libocsync-plugin-owncloud  0.80.0-1
ii  libocsync0                 0.80.0-1
ii  libowncloudsync0           1.2.5+dfsg-1
ii  libqt4-network             4:4.8.5+dfsg-3
ii  libqt4-test                4:4.8.5+dfsg-3
ii  libqt4-xml                 4:4.8.5+dfsg-3
ii  libqtcore4                 4:4.8.5+dfsg-3
ii  libqtgui4                  4:4.8.5+dfsg-3
ii  libqtkeychain0             0.1.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                 4.8.1-9
ii  mirall-l10n                1.3.0+dfsg-1

owncloud-client recommends no packages.

owncloud-client suggests no packages.

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