Comment 11 for bug 2046581

This bug was discussed at today's server team meeting. Having the package do its own version checking outside the packaging system's own checks seems redundant and confusing, although in this case apart from confusion it seems innocuous. It would be interesting to see how this is handled by other distributions, but it seems logical to disable the check for the official Ubuntu (and perhaps Debian) packages.

One thing that needs to be doublechecked before taking action on quelling this error message is if it serves a purpose in ensuring the external data is handled properly. Presumably the data format/schema is kept stable, but if the checks are catching invalid data then it may need more thought than just switching it off.