Package manager is unable to upgrade Pulse Audio

Is there any way to upgrade pulse audio without breaking anything?

scirex% sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 openbangla is up to date0.0   B  0.00   B/s 00:00 [----------------------]   0%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: freedownloadmanager: local (6.11.0.3218-2) is newer than community (6.11.0.3218-1)
warning: gnome-wallpapers: local (20201023-1) is newer than community (20201020-1)
warning: libpulse: ignoring package upgrade (13.0-3 => 13.99.3-1)
warning: pulseaudio: ignoring package upgrade (13.0-3 => 13.99.3-1)
resolving dependencies...
warning: ignoring package pulseaudio-13.99.3-1
warning: cannot resolve "pulseaudio=13.99.3-1", a dependency of "pulseaudio-bluetooth"
warning: ignoring package pulseaudio-13.99.3-1
warning: cannot resolve "pulseaudio=13.99.3-1", a dependency of "pulseaudio-equalizer"
warning: ignoring package pulseaudio-13.99.3-1
warning: cannot resolve "pulseaudio=13.99.3-1", a dependency of "pulseaudio-jack"
warning: ignoring package pulseaudio-13.99.3-1
warning: cannot resolve "pulseaudio=13.99.3-1", a dependency of "pulseaudio-lirc"
warning: ignoring package pulseaudio-13.99.3-1
warning: cannot resolve "pulseaudio=13.99.3-1", a dependency of "pulseaudio-zeroconf"
:: The following packages cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
  pulseaudio-bluetooth  pulseaudio-equalizer  pulseaudio-jack
  pulseaudio-lirc  pulseaudio-zeroconf

:: Do you want to skip the above packages for this upgrade? [y/N] N
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'pulseaudio=13.99.3-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'pulseaudio=13.99.3-1' required by pulseaudio-equalizer
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'pulseaudio=13.99.3-1' required by pulseaudio-jack
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'pulseaudio=13.99.3-1' required by pulseaudio-lirc
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'pulseaudio=13.99.3-1' required by pulseaudio-zeroconf

Well, you have this line, which means you have pulseaudio in the IgnorePkg= section of your /etc/pacman.conf. So it makes sense, that packages depending on a new version of pulseaudio, won’t be able to update.

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