libv4l ./. unicap

[Bill Crawford]

2008/8/4 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> libv4l provides libv4l2.so.0
>> unicap provides libv4l2.so.0
>>  required by: libv4l-devel-0.3.8-1.fc10.i386
>>  required by: unicap-0.2.23-2.fc10.i386
>>  required by: libv4l-0.3.8-1.fc10.i386

> Michael,
>
> You rock! Thanks for all the sanity check scripts!
>
> This is a bug in the unicap package, the unicap libv4l2.so.x is a plugin,
> and thus should not be added to the provides list. Or rather I guess this is
> a bug in rpm's autoprovide script, as it should only look for .so files in
> the standard library paths and not in private lib dirs.

I think this should probably get a rename; usually plugins just have
".so" (without a version on the end) and live in a versioned
*directory* if there's a need to control ABI versions, or parallel
install, or what have you. Could that be done here?