Bug#979250: cinnamon-core: Why does cinnamon-core depend on xorg?

[Gábor Gombás <gombasg@digikabel.hu>]

Package: cinnamon-core
Version: 4.8.2
Severity: minor

Hi,

# apt install -t unstable cinnamon-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  x11-apps x11-session-utils xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xinit xorg xorg-docs-core
Suggested packages:
  xorg-docs x11-xfs-utils
Recommended packages:
  xbitmaps
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  x11-apps x11-session-utils xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xinit xorg xorg-docs-core
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cinnamon-core
1 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 90 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 18.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

Why does cinnamon-core now depend on such old stuff? My systems did not have
those old, legacy tools installed for years, and Cinnamon worked fine. Why do
they need to be resurrected now?

Regards,
Gabor

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (102, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.4 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cinnamon-core depends on:
ii  cinnamon                                     4.8.5-1
ii  cinnamon-control-center                      4.8.2-1
ii  cinnamon-screensaver                         4.8.1-2
ii  cinnamon-session                             4.8.0-2
ii  cinnamon-settings-daemon                     4.8.3-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.38.0-1
ii  desktop-base                                 10.0.3
ii  muffin                                       4.8.0-3
ii  nemo                                         4.8.3-1

Versions of packages cinnamon-core recommends:
ii  cinnamon-l10n              4.8.3-1
ii  gdm3 [x-display-manager]   3.38.2.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal             3.38.1-2
ii  gnome-themes-extra         3.28-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.18.2-1
ii  gvfs-fuse                  1.46.1-2

Versions of packages cinnamon-core suggests:
ii  cinnamon-desktop-environment  4.8.1

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