>We do not have packages of these, and probably never will. This is not
>a bug in the installer.
>
>The correct way to report that you want a new package is to report a bug
>against the pseudo-package 'wnpp'. There is already such a bug for
>MATE, #708385.
>
>Ben.
This is not right. As of 2012-11-17 (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cinnamon/news/20121117T100008Z.html),
cinnamon has been admitted debian unstable and so it IS a debian
package (http://packages.debian.org/sid/cinnamon).
As of 2013-05-06, cinnamon migrated to testing, and it is now in
jessie
(http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cinnamon/news/20130506T163905Z.html).
So you should consider reopening this bug.
Paolo