RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Rex Dieter]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> If i understand the argument that people are making... is that doing
>> it this way... is a burden on 3rd party packagers who have to try to
>> predict when and if Core is going to introduce a libname[Version] for
>> previous versions.
>
> Whenever that happens - when a Core package is renamed like this - the 3rd
> party packagers need to update their spec files to make them buildrequire
> libname[Version]-devel instead.

I thought the proposal included that each package include
Provides: libname = %version
or was that also determined to be problematic?

-- Rex