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
