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

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Sat Jan 17 19:05:37 UTC 2015


On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:40:51 +0600, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
> On 17 January 2015 at 18:23, Jan Alexander Steffens
> <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Resetting the pkgrel is indeed wrong. pkgrel should be bumped when
> > moving to [community], and that has been my habit when moving
> > packages from the AUR.
> 
> I agree. Even I used to be guilty. Although this is not AFAIK
> documented anywhere, we were recommended to do this whenever the
> question came up. I have added this as an AUR guideline:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines&diff=356844&oldid=356556

Why n+1? I prefer no change of the current dot release. The
original AUR package's software was compiled, is installed and the
software does work. However, n+1 wouldn't be that annoying, as a reset
to .1 is, so thanks for editing the Wiki.

Regards,
Ralf


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