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[Erich Eickmeyer <erich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you installed GIMP from outside the repos at any time before the
upgrade, it would make sense that it would be removed for compatibility
reasons. Also, any and all installations from outside the official repos
are not supported.

The reason GIMP 2.10 was not included in 18.04 is due to the fact that
GIMP 2.10 breaks MyPaint 1.2 due to a library compatibility issue. Since
MyPaint 1.2 and GIMP 2.8 are included in the Ubuntu Studio flavor, it
would have broken the entire flavor. Additionally, GIMP 2.10 was
released after the feature freeze.

So, until MyPaint releases a 1.3 version, 18.04 will be stuck with GIMP
2.8. Ubuntu 18.10 will contain GIMP 2.10, and as such MyPaint was
dropped from Ubuntu Studio until the bug is corrected. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/1759625.

Since this bug and workaround involves installation from outside the
official Ubuntu repos, this bug is invalid.

** Changed in: gimp (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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