Hi,

Thanks for maintaining this usuful software.

Since the last version (that didn’t happen before), OSCAR added a
feature to check the availability of a new version. This is not useful
in a Debian context and is actually a breach of privacy.

Please, do patch away this feature.

I caught it with my firewall, but I believe the relevant input in the
log was the following line.

Regards,

taffit

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
oscar, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1152445@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@debian.org> (supplier of updated oscar package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:24:48 -0400
Source: oscar
Architecture: source
Version: 2.1.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@debian.org>
Closes: 1152445
Changes:
 oscar (2.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * d/rules: Build with NO_CHECKUPDATES.
   * d/p/0003-Disable-network-check-for-updates.patch:
     Completely disable network phone-home to check for updates.
     (Closes: #1152445)
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