Keep GIMP 2.10 with python 2 forever as a Flatpak

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Hello, I made this thread to encourage the community to keep the flatpak of GIMP 2.10 forever with python 2 and plugins of the time intact so it will run on future Linux distros long after GIMP 3 is released. Can Flathub please make sure that GIMP 2.10 is a separate flatpak repo/page once GIMP 3 releases and still work with GMIC, Resynth, BABL and GEGL of its time?

Once GIMP 3 is released python2 and gtk2 will be dropped from major Linux distro repos. This means that getting GIMP 2.10 to run on Linux several years from now may be extremely difficult outside of virtual machines if the Flatpak is not preserved.

I know python2 is a security risk but this is for specialist who want GIMP 2.10

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You have to ask the maintainer, what their plans are but generally I’m against a second Flatpak or creating more branches. We don’t allow apps to have multiple branches, because it is a hosting cost/infrastructure problem.

You can take the GIMP2 manifest, build and preserve it on your own repo Hosting a repository - Flatpak documentation or you can mask the Flatpak while it is still on GIMP 2 so that it never gets updated for you flatpak-mask(1) - Linux manual page . (Mask it on a second PC or a VM/container)

But I hope you update because it is shipping a lot of legacy software and there are security risks involved.

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I am a GIMP plugin developer using GIMP 2.99.19 built a few days ago from source which is later then most people on planet earth are using. I just said for my own self interest in the future I’d like to be able to run GIMP 2.10 as it was now. I know about flatpak mask.

Linux makes that difficult without virtual box. I’ll think about an alt flatpak branch with hosting my own repo. Thanks