Hi, I am the maintainer of wcslib and wcstools in Debian. In the Debian packages, I patched the wcstools library in that way (libwcstools); not just for the development version but also for the shared library (libwcstools0, since upstream doesn't contain a SONAME yet). It would be nice if we could (independently of the pending upstream decision) agree to use a common naming and SONAME scheme here to make applications more portable, and also to put some pressure to upstream. Best regards Ole Am 03.04.2013 00:48, schrieb Sergio Pascual: > 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. > > Perhaps upstream is more receptive now, I don't know > > > 2013/4/1 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> > >> On 04/01/2013 05:19 AM, Joseph Wang wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Fedora astronomy mailing list >> astronomy at lists.fedoraproject.**org <astronomy at lists.fedoraproject.org> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**SIGs/Astronomy<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy> >> https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/astronomy/attachments/20130403/8bc5e1e2/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ Fedora astronomy mailing list astronomy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy
