[Fedora-packaging] Which library wins if two different libraries are named same?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On 06/12/2009 02:15 AM, Robert Scheck wrote:
> Good morning everybody,
> 
> yesterday night, I noticed that there's an overlap of the libmapi.so
> library in the future. There are two packages which would provide a same
> named but different library called "libmapi.so".
> 
> One is provided by the openchange package, the other will be provided by
> the zarafa package (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498194).
> 
> Which one will win, which one has to be renamed? The openchange library
> already is in Fedora, but is very much newer from the history compared with
> the zarafa one. The openchange libmapi.so exists since ~ April 2007, the
> zarafa libmapi.so exists since about 5 years now. When looking to the point
> of producitivity, I would say that zarafa libmapi.so would win as well, as
> it is in productive use at their customers since they're existing as well.
> 
> Or should maybe both libraries get renamed to mark which upstream they're
> from? This is, what I personally would prefer, especially as we're now very
> early in the circle and could do such a library renaming without hurting
> too much and too many things.
> 
> 
I think I agree with both libraries getting renamed.  mapi seems like it
would be a common name.  we've had an approved Guideline change for a
while that partially addresses this; I've updated the Conflicts
Guideline with that information now:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts

-Toshio

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