RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Rex Dieter]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> Hi all
>
> A question to packagers: what would you think of a policy to add the library
> soname in package libraries ? For example, I have a libkexif package, which

If it *must* be done, you need to follow (appoximately at least) 
Mandrake's style, and build
libkexif0
libkexif1
... etc

With each (ideally) including
Provides: libkexif = %{version}

Also, doing it this way, You can't ever have a *real* libkexif rpm pkg 
anymore due to a recent rpm bug... err... feature:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/130352
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/111071

-- Rex