Bug#967027: cinnamon: uses libcroco which is unmaintained upstream

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Subject: Bug#967027: cinnamon: uses libcroco which is unmaintained upstream
From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:08:05 +0000
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On Mon, 03 Aug 2020 at 14:19:15 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2020 at 14:06:49 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > In Fedora, libcroco was removed from the distribution by bundling a copy
> > in the cinnamon source. I think we should seriously consider doing the
> > same in Debian.
> 
> See https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/9501 upstream.

cinnamon >= 4.8.0 uses a bundled copy of libcroco. The last remaining thing
to do here is to drop the now-unnecessary build-dependency, and get that
change into testing.

Please consider:
https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon/-/merge_requests/12

Thanks,
    smcv

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