Kamil Dudka (kdudka(a)redhat.com) said:
Are you reading it from the specfile?
It is just an implementation detail of the packaging (the RemovePathPostfixes
feature of rpm). The string you mentioned neither appears in the SONAME, nor
in any file installed by the RPMs in question.
... which means if the SONAME is the same, you either are dealing with
Conflicts:, or relying on the behavior of ldconfig to figure out which
library you happen to get at a particular time. Neither of those sounds
like a great idea.
Bill