Comment # 3 on bug 944656 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Franklin Titus from comment #2)
> It happened with 'zypper up' and also, 'zypper up kio-extras5' will not do
> anything at this moment because the latest version of that package is
> currently installed.

Well, then you shouldn't have any file conflict any more.
If you look at the message, it clearly states the conflict is with the old
kio-extras5-5.3.2.
In 5.4.0, some files from kio-extras have been moved to plasma5-workspace
(upstream), kio-extras5-15.08.0 doesn't contain those files so there is no
conflict.

TBH, I only see two possible reasons for your problem to occur:
- "zypper up" didn't want to update kio-extras5 for some reason (e.g. package
was not in the repo yet, a conflict, locked package, ...)

- zypper does the file conflict check against the currently existing files on
your hard disk only, and does not consider the changes by other packages that
are going to be installed too

I think the second point is more likely, because you do have the latest
kio-extras5 installed now.
Not sure if anything can be done from the KDE packaging side to prevent this
conflict then.

@zypper maintainers: Might this be the reason? Can there be anything done about
that "conflict" (packaging-wise) if that's the reason?