On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 09:41:39AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:26:09 -0400 > Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > pkgrel is supposed to monotonically increase on each rebuild of the > > package. > > Which is completely invalid in the AUR. How is the maintainer supposed to keep > the user from doing rebuilds in between?
Why, because pkgrel is now out of sync with the AUR? The user can just bump the release a minor version, which pacman handles just fine and will still see an upgrade the next time the maintainer updates the package.