Homebrew say that Flameshot is drepecated

[rabol]

Hello

I use Flameshot on my linux machine and now I want to use it on my Mac as well, but on https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/flameshot is say that it's deprecated, so what is the best way to install on Mac ?

[mmahmoudian]

We don't manage the homebrew, and it is maintained by a third party. As for the reason it is deprecated marked as depricared, iat the moment we don't pay for Apple Developer ID, and therefore we don't digitally sign our app. That's it. We don't pay "Apple tax" and Apple doesn't like that. A company has shown interest to sponsor the cost, and we are in negotiations, but since at the moment they offered to sign the binary at their end manually, and since we cannot verify the integrity of our app after they have signed, we don't ship signed binary for now. This is essential for security of our users. As soon as we find a way to fully verify in integrity, or as soon as we manage to automate the signing process on out own end, we will provide that too.

For now, your best option is to download the dmg from our release page and then follow this documentation to give the permission Flameshot needs:

https://flameshot.org/docs/installation/installation-osx/

If you had further issue, take a look at this page too:

https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/troubleshooting/#macos

[rabol]

Thank you very much for the information

I understand th Apple issue, and I agree that the "Apple Tax" is crazy

Maybe the read me should be updated.

I will use the .dmg

[mmahmoudian]

Maybe the read me should be updated.

I hope that soon we can resolve the DMG signing issue, although I doubt that it happens during summer.

Would you like to suggest a patch or make a PR for the README?