Comment 4 for bug 1629749

Thanks for the Emerald tip, but I've been warned against it since it might be undermaintained.

Another approach might be to look into libmarco, which seems to be a mate fork of libmetacity; I haven't looked into it yet though (but plan to if time permits).

In the meanwhile, I've prepared a few patches against latest compiz trunk, so that compiz builds against Debian unstable. Pointers to the git repository and to the Debian packages for amd64 can be found here: https://compiz.alioth.debian.org/ — the patch series contains a workaround for this FTBFS by disabling libmetacity: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/compiz/compiz.git/commit/?h=unstable-v1&id=c36fa3cf661eb363f75ca54fe642bad0f0377f40

I have only performed build tests for the time being, and made sure packages are installable.

They're probably suboptimal since a bunch of things needed be disabled to build against Debian unstable, but the idea was to see whether we could bring back compiz to Debian, and then improve incrementally.