Package: httpie Followup-For: Bug #1041792 Further testing with help of people on IRC revealed the following information:
If you simply install httpie, and don't create any config directories, it will perform the version check every single time you run httpie. If you create the directory ~/.config/httpie/ then httpie will download the file https://packages.httpie.io/latest.json and save it in ~/.config/httpie/version_info.json If you delete ~/.config/httpie/version_info.json and create the file ~/.config/httpie/config.json with this content: { "disable_update_warnings": true } then the version checks stop and ~/.config/httpie/version_info.json stops being created. This is poorly documented upstream. I don't know if it is a permanent solution, or if it only temporarily stops this. I'm providing this as a workaround before it is fixed in the debian package. In any case, this behavior should be patched out in httpie as distributed by debian.
