On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yes it's easy to downgrade manually on a single machine, but my > suggestion is about repo maintainers having a mechanism to force > a downgrade via the index. This is less of an issue for LTS distros > but important for non-testing users of Arch and other rolling distros. > The package maintainer cannot know that 3.3 has a corruption bug and > naturally trusts ffmpeg's announcement that 3.3 is a stable release. > I did too and was surprised. It's my first ffmpeg surprise and usually > ffmpeg is reliable. > > They do, it's called the epoch (see man PKGBUILD).
