Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:tracker-miners Owner: jeremy.bi...@canonical.com
Package Name: localsearch Version: 3.8 (not yet released yet) Upstream Author: Sam Thursfield, Carlos Garnacho and others License: GPL-2+ (some parts are LGPL-2.1+) Programming Lang: C Description: metadata database, indexer and search tool - filesystem indexer This package contains the indexer for indexing your files and folders. . localsearch is an advanced framework for first class objects with associated metadata and tags. It provides a one stop solution for all metadata, tags, shared object databases, search tools and indexing. . localsearch was previously known as Tracker Miners. Other Info -------------- localsearch is a rename of the tracker-miners file indexer included by default in GNOME. The primary driver for this rename is that privacy-conscious curious users are disturbed by the persistent background process named tracker-miner-fs-3. It sounds like something is tracking users perhaps for malicious reasons. Miner brings to mind cryptocurrency miners that could have been installed without authorization. Concerned users can complain or may try to disable or remove these services and break core functionality of their desktop environment. The Debian GNOME team intends to package localsearch (and the tracker replacement named tinysparql) in Experimental probably in July. The intent is for the new binary packages to replace the existing tracker-miners packages. We expect to do the transition in Unstable later in the year. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners/-/issues/346 Thanks, Jeremy Bícha
