Python 2 support

[akovia]

When I recently updated to 2.10.18-4, Heal Selection stopped working. I'm sure quite a few other plugins were broken as well, but I stopped and rolled back to 2.10.18-2 as I was in the middle of a project.

Today I was trying to see if anyone else had problems after this recent update and couldn't find anything. After installing it again, I realized I had missed a message during installation.

Code:

(1/3) upgrading gimp                                                                                                                                                                                          
 > The python2 plugin support is disabled, you will need to install this
 > separately if you need it, e.g. the python2-gimp package in the AUR.

Of course I then tried to install this package.

Code:

$ yay python2-gimp
1 aur/python2-gimp 2.10.18-1 (+2 1.76%) (Orphaned)

It appears to be orphaned and indeed the download failed. I figured out that download.gimp.org was offline and used a mirror instead. After building and installing this package, everything is back up and working.

So my question is if anyone else is having these issues, or is this just an Arch Linux issue right now? 

Is there a discussion somewhere on the future of python2 dependencies and converting old plugins to python3?