[Fedora-packaging] Binary in libxxx package

Mon Jul 22 08:23:10 UTC 2013

Hi Christopher,

On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 01:19, Christopher Meng wrote:
> No, in fact the library is the most important part. This library is libxls,
> a very nice library to handle Excel files.

IMHO you can package the binary as libxls-tools or -utils.

> The problem is that the binary is named
> xls2csv, which is already taken in the repo by another perl program. And
> xls is not good to name it.

In this case you should coordinate with the maintainer of the package
that provides that perl program and one of you should rename your
binary. Asking upstreams first is advised, too.

Regards,
Dominik
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