Bug#1005069: tracker: Unable to easily disable tracker

[Bruce Momjian,,,]

Package: tracker
Version: 2.3.6-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

I have 2TB of images in the 'Pictures' directory in my home directory.  Since upgrading to Bullseye, I found that 'tracker' was using significant CPU, even after days, though the Pictures directory content
was unchanged.  I can't remove tracker since gnome-flashback-common and gnome-panel depend on it.  I tried disabling tracker via systemctl disable and systemctl mask, but it was still running.  I tried
several suggested gsettings options, but the only one I found that worked was 'gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories "[]"'.

Tracker wasn't using a huge amoutn of CPU, but on my idle system, it was using the most CPU.  I feel it should be easier to disable tracker.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tracker depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.20-2
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.20-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.38.0-2
ii  libc6                                         2.31-13+deb11u2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.66.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                                2.66.8-1
ii  libicu67                                      67.1-7
ii  libsqlite3-0                                  3.34.1-3
ii  libstemmer0d                                  2.1.0-1
ii  libtracker-control-2.0-0                      2.3.6-2
ii  libtracker-sparql-2.0-0                       2.3.6-2
ii  shared-mime-info                              2.0-1

Versions of packages tracker recommends:
ii  tracker-miner-fs  2.3.5-2.1

tracker suggests no packages.

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