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xbps-src prefers old local binary packages over version in template

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Since Jul 11, 2023.

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Description

xbps-src rebuilds dependencies listed in template, but not their runtime dependencies.
This causes errors in building packages[1][2] when such transitive dependency was build long ago enough to become uninstallable (eg. solib conflicts).
This may also cause local builds to use older version of build-time dependencies than available in template.

Reproduction simulating gtkd built before revbump for ldc:

git revert 81d682966271c
git revert 07f83ffb9bb87
./xbps-src pkg gtkd
rm hostdir/binpkgs/ldc*-1.24.0_2.x86_64.xbps
xbps-rindex --clean hostdir/binpkgs
git checkout HEAD~2
xnew a # let it makedepend on tilix (it has runtime dependency on gtkd)
./xbps-src fetch a
# gtkd-3.9.0_4: broken, unresolvable shlib `libdruntime-ldc-shared.so.94'

Ideas to fix it other than rebuilding all old local packages?

[1] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/24765#issuecomment-855386084
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/nov7b2/dependency_issues_while_updating_chromium_through/

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