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

[Arnaud Ferraris]

Hi Jeremy,

Le 18/04/2024 à 14:55, Jeremy Bícha a écrit :
> 
> 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.

TBH I would prefer it if those services were kept enabled in Debian, as 
those are useful to mobile users. Moreover, it seems an alternative to 
MLS is being worked on, although I don't know what its current status 
is, nor whether it'll be live before MLS goes down. But if it's ready 
soon enough (that's a big "if", granted), then g-c-c will likely need a 
small patch to switch to it, without user-visible disruption.

I understand the reasoning for Ubuntu with the LTS release approaching, 
but I think Debian can keep those services enabled for a while and 
revisit when approaching the deadline.

That being said, Mobian already ships a downstream version of g-c-c, so 
it doesn't really change much to us: worst case, I can just re-enable 
location services in our build.

Regards,
Arnaud

> 
> I provided a few more details at https://launchpad.net/bugs/2062178
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha
> 
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