When I run flatpak update, it says that the packages org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel and org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default are at end of life and removes them. However, on its next run, it installs them again, and then removes them on its next run again and so on.
Here's the output from my last 2 runs.
agamagarwal@glados:~$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
ID Branch Op
1. [-] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 19.08 r
2. [-] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 19.08 r
Uninstall complete.
agamagarwal@glados:~$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
ID Branch Op Remote Download
1. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 19.08 i flathub 88.6 MB / 89.1 MB
2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 19.08 i flathub 8.6 MB / 8.7 MB
Installation complete.
As mentioned, this keeps repeating on subsequent flatpak update runs.
I am running Pop!_OS 21.04 x86_64 and flatpak version 1.11.2.
flatpak uninstall --unused fixed it.
It removed those end-of-life packages for good.
Now running flatpak update doesn't do this.