Il 22/02/2025 01:28, Andrea Borman ha scritto:
The Mate Panel or Gnome Flashback Desktop which had the Gnome Panel was installed in older versions of Cinnamon as a fallback. So that if the Cinnamon Desktop crashed then you would still have a working desktop. But this is not required on the the new versions of Cinnamon or on Cinnamon 6 because it doesn't need it. Although Linux Mint still includes the Mate Panel both their LMDE6 and 21.1 desktop both of which have Cinnamon 6.4.1.On Linux Mint if you uninstall the Mate Panel on cinnamon then Gnome Session Flashback automatically gets installed as the fallback instead! But this is not the case on Debian but the Linux Mint version of Cinnamon 6.4.1 may have their own libraries. Because when I tried Cinnamon on Linux Mint the Control Center and everything worked fine.Maybe they do use phython3-six but I am not sure. *Andrea Borman.*
About upstream packaging (used by mint) I have not had time to check and prepare PR to clean and improve full packaging any components, for example the cinnamon that will require big amount of time I not yet done (except some small specific things over the years).
Mint is based only on latest Ubuntu LTS stable (now the 24.04) and latest Debian stable (now the 12) and unfortunately they don't have constant testing on new versions (for example like Debian unstable/experimental) but they almost always start just before the new Ubuntu and Debian release (like now it seems they are starting the first changes and tests for Debian 13). Many fixes for compatibility with new versions of dependencies come from distributions that have continuous development branches to test the latest versions well as soon as they come out, most of the fixes for example come from Fedora. Just as they unfortunately upstream don't have enough people and time to optimally maintain the many applications forked they make, and one of the reasons why they are not all included in Debian. There are not enough people or time even in the cinnamon team in Debian for an optimal packaging, I'm almost the only one left (to regularly maintain cinnamon packages) and the new major versions of cinnamon could arrive in unstable/experimental after more time, for example unfortunately I don't have enough time to get it in experimental as soon as the first tag start, like 6.4.0 (when they merge most of the stuff just before the beta of a new version) and keep more uploads done on Debian experimental and unstable during.
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