[pacman-dev] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Moving arduino into [community] important notes

[Andrew Gregory]

On 11/27/16 at 10:16am, Allan McRae wrote:
> Issue described on pacman-dev:
> 
> The 2nd issue is when people try to upgrade from an older version of
> arduino that provided arduino-builder. It will fail to install as the
> new version says "oh, arduino-builder is already installed". It then
> tries to remove arduino and the arduino-builder dependency is not
> satisfied anymore. This only affects a small number of versions, but
> still raise up on AUR. I am not sure if this got fixed in pacman by now.
> -> To resolve this issue you need to remove arduino first and then
> reinstall it.
> 
> 
> From what I can see, package A provides B, but in the next update, A and
> B are separate packages.

The problem doesn't make sense as described; pacman doesn't count
packages being upgraded when doing dependency checks.  Is this the
problem tested in sync-update-package-removing-required-provides?

apg