"Check for Updates..." on Debian appears non-functional

[keverets]

Running brave 0.12.9-1, from the Hamburger menu, "Help -> Check for Updates..." creates a status bar that says "Not yet! Sorry, there are no updates yet. Please check back soon." However, visiting https://brave.com/downloads.html and following the "Download Brave for Debian/Ubuntu" button (through the opaque https://laptop-updates.brave.com/latest/debian64 link) downloads brave_0.12.14_amd64.deb.

I would expect that the "Check for Updates..." menu item would provide information that a new version of brave is available (and a link to download it, if it is not auto-updating).

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?):
  Debian stable

• Brave Version:
  0.12.9

• Steps to reproduce:

  1. Hamburger menu, Help, About Brave (note that 0.12.9 is listed)
  2. Hamburger menu, Help, Check for Updates..." (note the "Not yet!" bar appears)
  3. Verify that a new version does in fact exist.

[cndouglas]

BTW, a repo was set up recently (#1170 (comment)). See the updated instructions here.

I'll close this particular issue as a duplicate of #1470.