Bug#705889: iceape: 90 day banner "Your copy of Iceape is old and probably has known security flaws"

[Steve Cotton]

Package: iceape
Version: 2.7.12-1
Severity: minor

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130119 Iceape/2.7.12

Dear Maintainer,

Every time I start Iceape today, it displays a red warning banner "Your
copy of Iceape is old and probably has known security flaws, but you have
disabled automated update checks. Please update to a newer version."

Not reproducible with a fresh .mozilla/seamonkey.

Workaround to stop it appearing without deleting your profile: edit
.mozilla/seamonkey/.../prefs.js and delete
"app.update.lastUpdateTime.background-update-timer"

This is an upstream feature which seems inappropriate for Debian.  The
banner only shows up 90 days after the date embedded in the build
identifier.  I'm logging the bug as much to document the workaround.

Upstream feature request (to add this banner, not remove it):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581319
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/609b77dd2e8a

Regards,
Steve

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (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 iceape depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-3
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100.2-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libffi5                   3.0.10-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.9.6-1
ii  libnspr4-0d               2:4.9.6-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.14.3-1
ii  libnss3-1d                2:3.14.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.26.0-4
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.16.2-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.3-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages iceape recommends:
pn  iceape-chatzilla  <none>

Versions of packages iceape suggests:
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.0-1
ii  gconf-service          3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libcanberra0           0.28-6
ii  libgconf-2-4           3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-2
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libnotify4             0.7.5-2
ii  xul-ext-dom-inspector  1:2.0.11-1

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