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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