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MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge ffmpeg21 [2] into ffmpeg2.1 [3]:

Package got renamed by maintainer, and changed the two reverse dependencies to require the new one instead of the old.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ffmpeg21/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ffmpeg2.1/

Request #57160 has been Rejected by Foxboron [1]:

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Foxboron, thank you for your guidance. Please help me to understand by what measure I should have known that metadata is not important here. The way I see it: - Maintainer has renamed and resubmitted the package. - There are comments and change notification subscriptions on the old package. - The new package is supposed to "replace" the old one. So in this particular case, I seem to be unable to reconcile your previous recommendation about the usage of merge to keep metadata with your current decision to not transfer such with a merge. Thank you in advance for your help in clearing this up for me. Cheers, Marcell / MarsSeed