<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br>
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. <br><br></div><div>Perhaps upstream is more receptive now, I don't know<br></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/1 Rex Dieter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdieter@math.unl.edu" target="_blank">rdieter@math.unl.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 04/01/2013 05:19 AM, Joseph Wang wrote:<br>
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I just noticed that both wcstools-devel and wcslib-devel create<br>
libraries named libwcs which causes a problem in linking to libwcs.so<br>
<br>
Wondering if you have any thoughts on resolving the conflict.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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-- rex<br>
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