Reduce the dependency on the geoclue-ubuntu-geoip packages to a recommends

[Drey]

Geoip check is currently used to determine if your timezone has changed. It connects to canonical servers on every boot. There is currently no way to remove the geoclue-ubuntu-geoip package without also removing indicator-datetime. Please reduce the dependency on the geoclue-ubuntu-geoip package to a recommends so users that do not need timezone adjustment or privacy-aware people can un-install it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[thehighhat (thehighhat)]

Removing (masking) geoclue-ubuntu-geoip with a metapackage does not work (it causes huge memory leak). Please remove dependency from indicator-datetime package completely.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This was previously not practical because indicator-datetime needed libgeoclue-dev to even build.

However, this isn't true anymore in 14.04 and geoclue is not used by default -- it's enabled if/when a user toggles the "show-auto-detected-location" boolean via unity-control-center. So I think this decoupling is at least possible now, though I'd prefer to have seb128 or cyphermox weigh in whether or not that change is practical.

Lastly, this change is IMO a low priority because indicator-datetime stopped unconditionally initializing GeoClue in 13.04.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 13.10.0+14.04.20140324.1-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (13.10.0+14.04.20140324.1-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Charles Kerr ]
  * When clicking onto a different calendar date on the Desktop, show
    the events for that calendar day starting at the beginning of the
    day, rather than the current time of day. (LP: #1293646)
  * Point to the right object path for the phone greeter. (LP: #1294832)
  * Remove unused dependencies from packaging. (LP: #1120358)
  * Change the desktop menu's settings menuitem's label to match the
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  [ Ted Gould ]
  * Synchronize process management across indicators
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:18:24 +0000