All details are on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868492
Cinnamon do bundle the whole source code of alacarte, a gnome menu editor in python. There is potentially forked code. I guess we cannot convince upstream to drop that fork, but still, the policy requires to have FESCO approval for that.
The current cinnamon maintener seemed to express a lack of interest into fixing the issue and asked me to open a ticket to FESCO after confirming it was still a issue due to EOL message :
{{{ 13:01:10| leigh123linux> misc: hi, if this issue bothers you that much please file a ticket at fesco are any other interested party https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868492 }}}
So here it is.
Clem has just listed this in his roadmap
{{{ + cinnamon: consider using "XDG_MENU_PREFIX=cinnamon- alacarte" instead of cme - coordinate with upstream to get cme improvements into alacarte }}}
https://github.com/linuxmint/Roadmap/commit/00a144e52ff988f5f2feee0461ac5e863147cffc
Per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries , the exception is up to the FPC: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/newticket .
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