[aur-general] Question file conflict on a new package I took over

[Don deJuan]

I just recently took over a package[1], and some people are having 
troubles updating due to file system conflict.
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) uuid: 
/usr/lib/libuuid.a exists in filesystem uuid: /usr/lib/libuuid.so exists 
in filesystem uuid: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/uuid.pc exists in filesystem 
uuid: /usr/share/man/man3/uuid.3.gz exists in filesystem Errors 
occurred, no packages were upgraded.

What is the actual proper way to handle a conflict like this? As a temp 
workaround I found that if I removed the package and then deleted those 
files left behind I can get it to install and all seems kosher after. 
But that is a ugly workaround.

Would the correct way be to use a .install file and then a pre_install 
hook to get rid of them?

Thanks a bunch for any help or tips here.


[1]uuid <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uuid/>