Bug#1067169: gnome-control-center: Disable location services?

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 12:59 PM Jeremy Bícha
<jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:
> Mozilla has announced that it will be disabling third party access to
> the Mozilla Location Service June 12. This is used via geoclue-2.0 to
> provide a variety of services across Debian desktops, in particular in
> gnome-control-center.
>
> GNOME has recently proposed a build option [1] to hide the
> location-related settings in gnome-control-center. I'm told that
> geoclue can also work with GPS so the settings might be useful for
> people using Debian on mobile devices. However, I think we need to do
> what's best for the vast majority of our users. I'm filing this issue
> for awareness in case anyone wants to contribute alternate ways of
> handling this situation upstream to GNOME.

gnome-control-center 46.1 will be released in a few days with location
services disabled by default. Although Debian is not on an urgent
timeline (the next Debian Stable release is not until 2025), I intend
to keep location services disabled when I upload the new version to
Debian. That provides for more notice for people to adapt to the
change before Mozilla's deadline.

Please let me know if it would be better to keep location services
enabled a bit longer.

I provided a few more details at https://launchpad.net/bugs/2062178

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha