[arch-general] In reply to [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
<denisfalqueto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Karol Blazewicz
> <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>>> I see my text was probably hard to read, but it was not about some
>>> packages not being updated for pacman 4.0 yet but a possible bug (or
>>> two) in pacman itself.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
>>>
>>
>> Same thing happened when I installed yaourt:
>>
>> [2011-10-14 14:36] Running 'pacman -S yaourt'
>> [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as
>> /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew
>> [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/makepkg.conf installed as
>> /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew
>> [2011-10-14 14:36] upgraded pacman (4.0.0-2 -> 3.5.4-4)
>> [2011-10-14 14:36] installed package-query (0.9-1)
>> [2011-10-14 14:36] installed yaourt (0.10.2-1)
>>
>> Now when I want to upgrade to pacman 4 it behaves as expected:
>>
>> resolving dependencies...
>> looking for inter-conflicts...
>> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>> :: package-query: requires pacman<3.6
>>
>
> You'll have to wait until package-query is updated to pacman 4 or just
> uninstall it. I had that problem too and decided to uninstall yaourt.
>
> --
> A: Because it obfuscates the reading.
> Q: Why is top posting so bad?
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Denis A. Altoe Falqueto
> Linux user #524555
> -------------------------------------------
>

My question is why pacman decided to downgrade itself to satisfy
package-query's dependency?
I think it should fail due to unresolvable dependencies:

warning: cannot resolve "pacman<3.6", a dependency of "package-query"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      yaourt