I owned the wcstools package in Fedora during a few releases. Back in 2009 I contacted upstream and told them this problem. They said that they would fix the conflict (by changing libwcs to libwcstools) in a new wcstools 4, but it didn't get released.
In discharge of upstream I must say that wcstools was not intended to be used as a development library, but as a set of tools around WCS.
In discharge of upstream I must say that wcstools was not intended to be used as a development library, but as a set of tools around WCS.
Perhaps upstream is more receptive now, I don't know
2013/4/1 Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 04/01/2013 05:19 AM, Joseph Wang wrote:One (or both) of these providers of the same/common soname should rename things. I'd recommend first contacting each upstream developer(s) to inform them of the conflict, and advise them to handle resolving the conflict themselves.
I just noticed that both wcstools-devel and wcslib-devel create
libraries named libwcs which causes a problem in linking to libwcs.so
Wondering if you have any thoughts on resolving the conflict.
The alternative is for downstreams (like fedora/megeia) resolving the conflicts, which ends up being incompatible with upstream (or each downstream too, if the naming isn't coordinated). This is obviously much less desirable, of course.
-- rex
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