[arch-general] warning: foobar: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:59:20 +0100, Alexandre Ferrando wrote:
> On 17 January 2015 at 12:19, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Regarding to my AUR cache [1], it seems to be common practise, that
> > packages that moved from AUR to community get a lower
> > "pkgrel="-value. IMO that is very annoying and doesn't make sense.
> > I don't want to reinstall software that does work and I dislike to
> > get tons of warnings. Why is this the common approach?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> >
> > PS: I'll send it to Arch and AUR general.
> >
> > [1]
> > $ ls /var/cache/aur/foobar*
> >
> 
> Because in the other hand, it wouldn't also have sense to have a
> foobar 1.0.0-2 in the arch repos and SVN without the 1.0.0-1 in the
> history.
> 
> Just my 0.02 $

Unlikely that upstream has got a git/svn mentioning a distro's package
release ;).