[pacman-dev] Versioned packages

[Eli Schwartz]

On 09/12/2016 06:51 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> This discussion has nothing to do with Arch.  It is about whether this
> feature needs implemented in pacman.

Which of course it doesn't. All we need is for the kernel maintainer to
start packaging a dummy linux package that depends on linux-$pkgver
packages.

As originally recommended by the bugtracker item which spawned this odd
thread.

...

I am not quite sure what is currently blocking such a resolution, but
that is already supposedly being discussed on the bugtracker.

Meanwhile let us listen to people proposing convoluted workarounds that
evade the issue entirely and are far less likely to actually be accepted...

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Eli Schwartz