A repo package that replaces something an installed AUR package still depends
on aborted the entire transaction, and would have done so on every subsequent
run - one stale AUR package was enough to cut a machine off from all updates
indefinitely. Observed in the wild: percona-server-clients replaces
libperconaserverclient without providing it, while heidisql-qt6-bin hard-depends
on it, blocking 213 unrelated package updates.
pacman names the offending package in its dependency errors, so it is now
extracted and passed to --ignore for one retry: the other 213 packages go
through and the blocker is reported. The hold is per-run, never written to
IgnorePkg, so it disappears by itself once upstream catches up.
The single retry is also now a bounded recovery loop, because fixing one
problem regularly uncovers the next - a conflict resolved with --ask=20 can
surface a dependency error behind it. Each remedy is applied at most once.
The held-back set is shown in the menu and notified only when it changes, so a
blocker waiting on an upstream fix does not produce the same message daily.
Felitendo
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