Got email from the upstream author who pointed out (and I just
confirmed) that once you've started, hit *Settings, *Configure
KPhotoAlbum, under the General Tab, Miscellaneous section, you can
uncheck *Listen for Android devices on startup.
I believe that for Debian this should certainly default
Since this gets written out to ~/.kde/share/config/kphotoalbumrc under
[General] as listenForAndroidDevicesOnStartup=false, it might be
possible for the Debian-specific patch to install something in the
existing global config in /usr/share/kde4/config/kphotoalbumrc though
that uses different