I thought about doing that - but the point is it is coded specifically to behave in the "no update" way - my change isn't a fix but a reversal of some deliberate logic - so if I change it - "someone" might just change it back - the best way would be to implement it as a configuration option - but that is a lot more work that my "dirty hack" of chopping out the checking code.
I will take another look when the 1.6 code is released and see when the options are then.