Reinstall doesn't report change

[jp1995]

- name: Test install
  kewlfft.aur.aur:
    name: units
    state: present
    use: yay
  become: yes
  become_user: aur_builder
  
- name: Remove test package
  community.general.pacman:
    name: units
    state: removed
    remove_nosave: true
    
- name: Test reinstall
  kewlfft.aur.aur:
    name: units
    state: present
    use: yay
  become: yes
  become_user: aur_builder

produces:

TASK [test : Test install] ***************************************************************
changed: [iota]

TASK [test : Remove test package] ********************************************************
--- before
+++ after
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-units-2.22-2

changed: [iota]

TASK [test : Test reinstall] *************************************************************
ok: [iota]                                                                                               

wheras expected behaviour would be:

TASK [test : Test reinstall] *************************************************************
changed: [iota]                                                                                         

I figured maybe this had to do with cached packages, but none of the package I tested with (grafana-bin, units) cached anything in /var/cache/pacman/pkg or ~/.cache/yay/ and reinstall is always recompiling too.

Manually running pacman -Rdd or pacman -Rns doesn't work either.

The community.general.pacman module does have this expected behaviour on reinstall.

Not a pacman / arch expert by any means, but Is there something specific I'm supposed to do here to solve this, or is this a bug?

[jp1995]

Okay so I tested with yay with the configured options --noconfirm --needed --cleanafter and it indeed does not rebuild, --cleanafter removes the sources but

==> Extracting sources...
    -> Extracting units-2.22.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Sources are ready.
    -> units-2.22-2 already made -- skipping build 

In this case it would be still nice to report a change as the package was not previously available for use, and now is. This would be good to test handlers, for example.

I might try to do a PR tomorrow.