Bug#1068778: geoclue and gpsd are running by default (they aren't needed and could be used for location tracking)
Package: general
I wondered why Debian comes with geoclue-2.0 and gpsd running by default (which could be used for location tracking). Please do not install them by default or if you really must, please do not make them autostart.
At most it could be useful for a few users if it was installed but not enabled and not running by default (so just an option one could enable in the configs or which could be enabled by the user through a prompt). If it's running by default this also means that after upgrades it could be running again. This is a privacy issue, an undesired bloat service that requires to spend time to remove it, and a larger attack surface even if there was a proper and vulnerability-free permissions-management for GPS-location-access.
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