Bug#983873: retroarch: Menu freezes shortly after start

[Pelle]

> Are you using sway as compositor? I reproduced the freezing behaviour 
> when running under sway. In a GNOME session on Wayland, retroarch 
> seems to work fine.
Yes, I'm using Sway.
> The message "Failed to create shell" helped me find what I think is 
> the corresponding upstream issue:
> https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/7064 

> It's unfortunate that retroarch wasn't updated for bullseye, but I'm 
> not sure trying to backport the xdg-shell feature to this version of 
> retroarch is a good idea now that bullseye is in hard freeze. 
I notice a similar bug in other packages in Debian Sid, such as ChessX. 
Would it make sense to report a bug with each of those packages, or 
would this be considered an issue with Sway / wlroots / xdg-shell?

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