FS#61614 - Warning regarding newer local version is misleading or may lead to wrong results

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Frank Zschage (frankz) - Sunday, 03 February 2019, 11:45 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Sunday, 03 February 2019, 11:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.1.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I've updated some packages and received the warning:

"Warning: faba-icon-theme: local version (1:4.3-1) is newer than community (4.3-1.1)"

I am not sure if it tells me:

- the creation date of local faba-icon-theme 1:4.3-1 is newer than community (4.3-1.1)
- pacman comes to the result that local 1:4.3-1 is a higher (newer) version number than community (4.3-1.1)
- or something different I just don't understand

If the first case is correct, it would be great if you could change the error message a little so that it is more obvious that pacman is dealing with the local creation date of the file (or something like that)
If the second case is correct I would assume that there is a problem in pacman regarding comparing the package versions (from my understanding 4.3-1.1 is newer than 1:4.3-1)
If the third case is correct it would be nice if you could give me a hint regarding the problem the warning is pointing at :-) .
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Sunday, 03 February 2019, 11:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  1:anything is newer than any epochless version number, by definition.

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