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Not particulary a reason of this specific version macflav. The culprit is this change in the by Arch provided GIMP package. They removed the Python Plugin, as it still is python2.
Therefore no Heal Selection in GIMP. You need to install for example python2-gimp which is available from the AUR.

Good suggestion beermad :)

Hi,

With the removal of python2 from repositories, I've noticed that this package doesn't explicitly have a dependency of either python2 or python2-gimp. This means it's possible to delete those packages without getting any warning that it will break the resynthesizer. It might be worth adding explicit dependencies to prevent users from deleting those packages then possibly not being able to reinstall them.

configure: error: GIMP development libraries not found; please install.

How I can install these?

GitHub is discontinuing git:// protocol access by mid-March.

Please kindly update source array to use git+https:// as protocol.

Hi emoryy. Sorry for being this late with an answer.
No, you don't need to do anything special :) Just use makepkg and this PKGBUILD to create a new package. If libffi with libffi.so.8 is installed it will be used automatically by the build process.

Hi! Thanks for pointing out what was the issue really! However I couldn't figure it out how to rebuild it to be compiled referencing libffi.so.8. It still referenced version 7. Would you need to do anything else other than just simply rebuilding it from scratch? In the end I just installed libffi7 from the aur.

Hello emoryy.
You have propably libffi with version 3.4.2 installed. Therefore you need to rebuild this package so it will be compiled with libffi.so.8 instead of searching/needing libffi.so.7

Sadly none of the menu items show up anymore. The following kind of error is printed for each plugin file even after having installed python2-gimp. (Everything is at the current latest version.)

ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/plugin-heal-selection.py", line 30, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
  File "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 76, in <module>
    import gimp

Hello zoe. Thanks for your comments.
The PKGBUILD you mentioned already conflicts this one (as it should be).
And it is known, that python2-gimp is needed. See my comment from 2020-03-29. I didn't add this as a dep though, because the gimp packages from the AUR weren't altered in way like the repo package. They still retained the python2 dep. Which would have caused problems, if python2-gimp were added as a dep.
But maybe I'm missed something and this can be safely added as dep?

To have Heal Selection available on Gimp, you must install python2-gimp. So add python2-gimp as dependency