apply_pkgrel_override compares the checked-in pkgver against the incoming one to decide whether Omarchy's pkgrel metadata has gone stale, but read the two sides differently: previous_pkgver came from get_pkgbuild_field, which strips quotes, while current_pkgver was parsed again in place and kept them. A PKGBUILD writing pkgver='1.0' therefore compared unequal to itself, and the pkgrel metadata of an unchanged package was deleted on every sync.
spotify, rustdesk and limine-mkinitcpio-hook all quote pkgver. None carries pkgrel metadata today, so nothing has been losing a suffix, but rebuild_on writes exactly that metadata and would have had it thrown away on the next sync.
Reading through the same accessor rather than parsing a second time removes the divergence instead of correcting one side of it.
🤖 Generated by Opus 5 in Claude Code. Reviewed by Codex XHigh.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <codex@openai.com>
A transient network failure cloning retroarch-joypad-autoconfig-git took
the whole sync workflow red. Clones now retry up to 3 times, and the
failure message includes git's actual error instead of guessing "may not
exist in AUR" — which was never the cause anyway: AUR serves an empty
repo for unknown package names, so that case is now detected explicitly
by the missing PKGBUILD.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
