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and subject line Bug#1041646: fixed in cinnamon 6.6.7-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1041646,
regarding cinnamon: depends on typelib from unmaintained caribou
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Source: cinnamon
Severity: important
Tags: upstream trixie sid
User: [email protected]
Usertags: oldlibs
Control: block 1041623 by -1
Control: block 1041641 by -1
cinnamon used to have a dependency on caribou, an experimental on-screen
keyboard from GNOME, which was removed in 2013:
> * Remove caribou as dependency. (LP: #1106062)
(ref: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinnamon/+bug/1106062>)
but a dependency on at least its GObject-Introspection bindings was
reinstated in the next version, because cinnamon crashed on startup if
gir1.2-caribou-1.0 wasn't installed:
> * Add missing dependency to gir1.2-caribou-1.0.
> (Fixes LP: #1106062 and LP: #1126721)
(ref: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinnamon/+bug/1106062>,)
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinnamon/+bug/1126721>)
I don't know whether the Caribou on-screen keyboard is shown in-process
by cinnamon, or whether cinnamon is talking to it via D-Bus or some other
IPC mechanism. If it's used via IPC, then that's not actually going to work
unless caribou itself happens to be installed (there is no dependency that
would make that happen, as far as I can see).
cinnamon seems to use caribou via Python and PyGI, so it should be
straightforward to make this dependency optional via a try:/except
ImportError: block, which would allow the dependency to be reduced to
a Suggests or nothing at all. GNOME Shell had similar handling for the
Telepathy framework for a while, although in JS rather than Python:
code to use it still existed, but it was runtime-optional.
The reason I'm raising this is that caribou was archived upstream
(#1041641) and depends on the unmaintained clutter-1.0 framework
(#1041623), so any bugs in it are not going to be fixed any more unless
someone (presumably from the cinnamon community) takes over the
responsibility for its upstream maintenance. In the absence of an upstream
maintainer, I don't think caribou should be included in trixie.
smcv
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Source: cinnamon
Source-Version: 6.6.7-1
Done: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cinnamon, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]> (supplier of updated cinnamon package)
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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:32:38 +0100
Source: cinnamon
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 6.6.7-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
Closes: 1041646
Changes:
cinnamon (6.6.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Fabio Fantoni ]
* New upstream version 6.6.7
* d/patches: remove 2 patches applied upstream and 1 not needed,
refresh others
* d/control:
- bump deps and breaks to 6.6
- remove python3-dbus from build-deps
- remove gir1.2-caribou-1.0 from cinnamon deps (Closes: #1041646)
- add gir1.2-graphene-1.0 to cinnamon deps
- add ibus to cinnamon recommends
- add xapp-symbolic-icons to cinnamon deps
- add python3-babel to cinnamon recommends
- remove gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 from cinnamon deps
- remove python3-distro from cinnamon deps
- add gir1.2-ibus-1.0 to cinnamon deps
* d/cinnamon-gsettings-override: remove pidgin from favorite apps
* Update d/copyright
* d/rules: update NetworkManager meson option for 6.6
* d/cinnamon.lintian-overrides: remove obsolete dbus-send override
.
[ Jeremy Bícha ]
* Remove Depends: gnome-themes-extra
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