26.9.1 added /lib/systemd/system/perplexity-local-runtime-setup.service
to the deb, and wholesale extraction made the package own /lib -- a
symlink owned by filesystem -- so pacman refused every install and
upgrade. The unit could never work here anyway: its setup script
apt-installs Docker and the NVIDIA Container Toolkit and exits on any
distro but Ubuntu, so the Arch equivalents ride optdepends instead.
package() now allowlists what leaves the deb: opt/, usr/, and that one
known unit path (deleted). Anything else stops the build rather than
shipping the next filesystem conflict.
Verified in a clean container: the published -1 reproduces the /lib
conflict; -2 installs fresh and upgrades from 26.8.4 cleanly.
Tracks Perplexity's own Debian repository, the feed the app updates
itself from, via .omarchy/upstream.sh -- same shape as
openai-codex-desktop. pkgver carries the build number from the pool
filename because the index's Version field drops it and upstream
rebuilds under the same marketing version; the pool wants the '+'
percent-encoded. The launcher replaces the postinst symlink pacman
never creates and defaults Chromium to Wayland.
Spencer Bull