Re: [arch-general] perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1)

[Nathan Wayde]

This is prolly a stupid idea but I'll suggest it anyway. Have anyone 
thought of simply adding another field in the pkginfo, say altver which 
if present would override pkgver. I'm pretty sure it would walk right 
around all this nonsense until(if ever) upstream starts using better 
version schemes. It would also fix? the issue with version dependencies 
of -svn(et al.) packages where the actual version is e.g 2.1 but the 
version in the pkginfo is 2432.