Norbert Preining has announced that he is retiring from packaging new versions of the Cinnamon desktop for Debian due to the fact that he stopped using Cinnamon on his system and switched to KDE. Since Norbert no longer uses Cinnamon all the time, he cannot provide quality testing of the packages under real-world conditions.
At one time, Norbert switched from GNOME3 to Cinnamon due to usability issues for advanced users in GNOME3. For a while, the combination of Cinnamon's conservative interface with modern GNOME technologies suited Norbert, but experiments with KDE showed that this environment more suited his needs. KDE Plasma is characterized by Norbert as a lighter, faster, more responsive and customizable environment. He has already started building fresh builds of KDE for Debian from OBS and intends to upload packages of KDE Plasma 5.22 to the Debian Unstable branch soon.
Norbert has expressed a willingness to continue maintaining existing packages of Cinnamon 4.x for Debian 11 "Bullseye" as a leftover, but has no intention of packaging Cinnamon 5 or doing any serious work related to Cinnamon. To continue the development of Cinnamon packages for Debian, new maintainers have already been found - Joshua Peisach, the author of Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix, and Fabio Fantoni, who is involved in the development of Cinnamon, who together are ready to provide quality support for Cinnamon packages for Debian.
Source: opennet.ru