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. 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.
Perhaps upstream is more receptive now, I don't know 2013/4/1 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> > On 04/01/2013 05:19 AM, Joseph Wang wrote: > >> I just noticed that both wcstools-devel and wcslib-devel create >> libraries named libwcs which causes a problem in linking to libwcs.so >> >> Wondering if you have any thoughts on resolving the conflict. >> > > 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. > > 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. > > -- rex > > ______________________________**_________________ > Fedora astronomy mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**SIGs/Astronomy<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy> > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy>
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