On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:08:30PM +0000, John Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 06:44 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Support compiled in would make libgpsd a hard requirement, which some
> > other people would probably complain about. But anyways, the main
> > problem is that, as far as I know, it doesn't actually work.
> Your reasoning is sound. Thanks for your consideration. I have a
> proposition for you. Let's suppose I can get it to work on my local
> system (I haven't tried yet; as I'm sure you know, rebuilding Firefox
> takes a long time). In that case, would you be willing to entertain a
> merge request which adds an opt-in build profile to enable gpsd support?
> 
> This would make it a little easier for Debianites to experiment with it,
> and then we can revisit whether to enable it by default later down the
> road.

So, I poked upstream, and it turns out Firefox has geoclue support since
version 102 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1769664), and
geoclue supports GPS sources...

Mike

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