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While checking my feed, just bumped into this https://www.preining.info/blog/?p=12001
While checking my feed, just bumped into this https://www.preining.info/blog/?p=12001
Norbert Preining, who seems to be Debian's Cinnamon maintainer, announced he might not be maintaining it anymore due to the fact that he no longer uses it since he switched to KDE PlasmaAfter Bullseye, the future of Cinnamon in Debian currently looks bleak.
Preining has a repo with latest KDE 5.22(Debian Testing/Unstable only) https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/ I've been using this to keep my Plasma updated in Bullseye.Since my switch to KDE/Plasma, I haven’t used Cinnamon in months. Only occasionally I tested new releases, but never gave them a real-world test. Having left Gnome3 for it’s complete lack of usability for pro-users, I escaped to Cinnamon and found a good home there for quite some time – using modern technology but keeping user interface changes conservative. For long time I haven’t even contemplated using KDE, having been burned during the bad days of KDE3/4 when bloat-as-bloat-can-be was the best description.
What revelation it was that KDE/Plasma was more lightweight, faster, responsive, integrated, customizable, all in all simple great. Since my switch to KDE/Plasma I think not for a second I have missed anything from the Gnome3 or Cinnamon world.
And that means, I will most probably NOT packaging Cinnamon 5, nor do any real packaging work of Cinnamon for Debian in the future. Of course, I will try to keep maintenance of the current set of packages for Bullseye, but for the next release, I think it is time that someone new steps in. Cinnamon packaging taught me a lot on how to deal with multiple related packages, which is of great use in the KDE packaging world.
If someone steps forward, I will surely be around for support and help, but as long as nobody takes the banner, it will mean the end of Cinnamon in Debian.
Please contact me if you are interested!