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@intelfx please apply my change. Alternatively, orphan the package and allow me to adopt it.

@kescherAUR This maintainer does not seem to recognize there is something wrong with this package (see my exchange with him down below). I would suggest you (and everyone else to be honest) use your modified PKGBUILD and be done with it.

So, no idea why this package still requires a specific version of nginx-mainline (which also makes it unusable for, say, nginx-quic). All other modules have changed to use the -src package, so here's a easy git diff for you to apply (along with a makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO):

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index be2f653..d73f753 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,39 +1,39 @@
 # Maintainer: Ivan Shapovalov <intelfx@intelfx.name>
 # Contributor: Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Jeremy Kescher <jeremy@kescher.at>

 pkgname=nginx-mainline-mod-vts
 pkgver=0.1.18
-pkgrel=35
-
-_modname="${pkgname#nginx-mainline-mod-}"
-_nginxver=1.21.6
+pkgrel=36

 pkgdesc='Nginx virtual host traffic status module (module for mainline nginx)'
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
-depends=()  # the build process doesn't require or use installed nginx, so add the dependency in package() to break the cycle
+makedepends=('nginx-mainline-src')
 url="https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts"
 license=('BSD')

-source=(
-       https://nginx.org/download/nginx-$_nginxver.tar.gz
-       $pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz
-)
+source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz)
+sha256sums=('17ea41d4083f6d1ab1ab83dad9160eeca66867abe16c5a0421f85a39d7c84b65')

-sha256sums=('66dc7081488811e9f925719e34d1b4504c2801c81dee2920e5452a86b11405ae'
-            '17ea41d4083f6d1ab1ab83dad9160eeca66867abe16c5a0421f85a39d7c84b65')
+prepare() {
+       mkdir -p build
+       cd build
+       ln -sf /usr/src/nginx/auto
+       ln -sf /usr/src/nginx/src
+}

 build() {
-       cd "$srcdir"/nginx-$_nginxver
-       ./configure --with-compat --add-dynamic-module=../nginx-module-vts-$pkgver
+       cd build
+       /usr/src/nginx/configure --with-compat --add-dynamic-module=../nginx-module-vts-$pkgver
        make modules
 }

 package() {
-       depends=("nginx-mainline=$_nginxver")
+       depends=('nginx-mainline')
        install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/nginx-module-vts-$pkgver/LICENSE \
                       "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE

-       cd "$srcdir"/nginx-$_nginxver/objs
+       cd build/objs
        for mod in *.so; do
                install -Dm755 $mod "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/nginx/modules/$mod
        done

Flagging the package out of date was a mistake. Sorry

Well be my guest to not do it, I'm gonna do these changes myself and use that. Maybe you should think about why nginx-mainline-src is in the official repos in the first place.

To quote the pkg desc: "Source code of nginx-mainline 1.19.10, useful for building modules"

@intelfx but you don't need to push a new PKGBUILD (or version) nor does the user has to edit the PKGBUILD, bc nginx-mainline-src is in sync with nginx-mainline. Just a simple rebuild does the trick.

Additionally you don't have the nginx src lying around for every nginx mod you have build, and you don't have to download it either.

@anonfunc

I... don't see how it helps? You still need to rebuild the package every time nginx changes minor version, otherwise your system breaks. The package you linked will not even try to prevent pacman from putting your system into a broken state.

This should probably be adjusted to use nginx-mainline-src, so one can rebuild it without changing PKGBUILD.

See nginx-mainline-mod-geoip2 for an example.