#1112350 cinnamon: recommends touchegg which is not in unstable

Package:
cinnamon
Source:
cinnamon
Description:
Innovative and comfortable desktop
Submitter:
Carles Pina i Estany
Date:
2026-09-13 11:03:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1112350#5
Date:
2025-08-28 20:04:09 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer,

I see that the package cinnamon (version 6.4.10-2+b1) recommends touchegg
which is not in unstable.

This can be seen in https://packages.debian.org/unstable/cinnamon

Should it be dropped or changed?

Note that I see that touchegg exists on Ubuntu. I think that
recommendations are meant to be installed in the majority of
installations. I see at:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

"The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
with this one in all but unusual installations."

So, I think that should not be listed there. But, perhaps it is ok if
done on purpose and not an oversight.

Thank you,

#1112350#10
Date:
2026-09-13 11:00:02 UTC
From:
To:
Hi, touchegg was present in ubuntu, (now seems not present on latest
version) and installed only from ppa and custom build (also in Debian in
some cases), so I keep it in recommends.

There is a working in progress for native gestures support:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/13644

Anyway for now seems will support only wayland session and the xorg one
will still use touchegg. I'll probably keep touchegg in recommends for now.