Upgrade pacman and sync db failed

[Liss]

Seems to be not my day today Attempt to sync with a repository, running pacman -Syu, then get the following:
...
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n]
...
I type Y and - as result:

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.6

my pacman is of version 3.5:
#pacman -V
Pacman v3.5.4 - libalpm v6.0.4

how can I install the latest version of pacman and/or do sync and upgrade of my system?

[Jonathan183]

select n for holding back system upgrade for pacman upgrade should do the trick