Hmm, using the date of the latest commit is at least sort of reasonable once you know where it actually comes from. (Nevertheless, I personally consider dates to be inelegant, and they introduce potential inconsistencies given that git does not enforce monotonically increasing dates, and depending how you format it, timezone differences can cause it to decrease anyway.)
That being said, and while this is obviously somewhat subjective, I'm not sure I see the reasoning anyway -- it's a git package being run from git master, why would the existence of maintenance releases on some other branch matter?
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yurikoles commented on 2023-08-14 16:42 (UTC) (edited on 2023-08-14 16:44 (UTC) by yurikoles)
In order to update this package and avoid version pinning cycle, you need to build both packages,
zfs-utils-git
andzfs-dkms-git
without installing them. Then install a same newer version of both of them in one transaction viapacman -U <path/to/built/zfs-utils-git> <path/to/built/zfs-dkms-git>
.