package naming question: IT++

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:40:13AM +0200, Marco Driusso wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about the right name to give to a package of the IT++
> library (package review request here ->
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264686, any review - and also
> sponsorship, I need one! - is welcome).
> 
> Some info:
> - the actual name of the library is 'IT++', according to their web page and
> documentation http://itpp.sourceforge.net/4.3.1/;
> - the package used to be called 'itpp' in former versions of the spec in
> Fedora (now dead, since 2011);
> - the installed library comes out from the build process as 'libitpp.so*',
> but all headers are under %{_includedir}/itpp, of course contain a lot of
> #include <itpp/someheader.h>, and of course all HTML documentation is
> written accordingly (basically, everything is called itpp*, except the
> actual lib file, which is called libitpp.so);
> - the package is named 'libitpp' in other distros, e.g. Ubuntu, openSUSE.
> 
> So I think we have two options:
> 1) use 'itpp' as the name of the package, which corresponds to the include
> dir name, but not to the lib file name (libitpp.so); in this case we will
> have:
> %{_libdir}/libitpp.so*
> %{_includedir}/itpp
> %{_datadir}/itpp
> %{_docdir}/itpp (<- comes out from %doc directive)

If we're sure there are no conflicts, what about a name itpp with a provides
libitpp ?

Pierre