cinnamon (6.6.9-2) [PTS] [DDPO]

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Debian changelog in Git:

cinnamon (6.6.9-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * d/control:
    - add the missing accountsservice dependency to cinnamon
      Thanks to Rolf Heinrichs and Michael Biebl (Closes: #1143635)
    - add cups-client to cinnamon recommends (Closes: #993152)
    - drop the unused cups-pk-helper dependency from cinnamon

 -- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>  Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:20:26 +0200

This branch is 1 commit ahead of tag debian/6.6.9-2

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commit 6481cf634dcdcfc01a1ff04dcb9dd424aa304f91
Author: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Date:   Fri Aug 28 20:12:54 2026 +0200

    d/control: recommend metacity and tint2 for the fallback session
    
    When Cinnamon crashes, cinnamon-launcher starts metacity as the fallback
    window manager and the first panel it finds among mate-panel,
    gnome-panel and tint2. None of them was installed on Debian:
    metacity-common is recommended only for its window border themes and
    ships no binary, so the forked child died with a FileNotFoundError
    traceback in ~/.xsession-errors and the user was left with a bare
    desktop, without window manager and without panel.
    
    Verified in a sid VM with 6.6.9-2: with these two packages installed the
    fallback session comes up complete, with the crash dialog decorated and
    a panel with task list, tray and clock, and restarting Cinnamon from it
    works and cleans up both processes. The cost is 4 packages and about 2.5
    MB installed.
    
    tint2 is recommended instead of mate-panel, which upstream lists first,
    because apt installs the first alternative of a Recommends and
    mate-panel would pull in 16 packages. Upstream Mint has metacity and
    mate-panel | gnome-panel | tint2 in Depends.
    
    Closes: #810911
    
    Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5