How often do you do updates?
Usually it’s fine to just force an overwrite when this happens, in my own experience. Dunno why package migrations like this happen. Research on other forums suggests that it’s a corruption usually caused by an update being interrupted and has resulted in a corrupted package database. Some recommend a reinstall, I don’t know…I don’t remember every having a power failure,etc during an update and I’ve had it.
The nasty ‘glue’ solution is the force I mentioned (eg sudo pacman -S --overwrite "*" <package_name>) or simply rm the offending files and run your update (neither pretty, but both work).
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