[Fedora-packaging] Which library wins if two different libraries are named same?

[Robert Scheck]

Good morning everybody,

yesterday night, I noticed that there's an overlap of the libmapi.so
library in the future. There are two packages which would provide a same
named but different library called "libmapi.so".

One is provided by the openchange package, the other will be provided by
the zarafa package (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498194).

Which one will win, which one has to be renamed? The openchange library
already is in Fedora, but is very much newer from the history compared with
the zarafa one. The openchange libmapi.so exists since ~ April 2007, the
zarafa libmapi.so exists since about 5 years now. When looking to the point
of producitivity, I would say that zarafa libmapi.so would win as well, as
it is in productive use at their customers since they're existing as well.

Or should maybe both libraries get renamed to mark which upstream they're
from? This is, what I personally would prefer, especially as we're now very
early in the circle and could do such a library renaming without hurting
too much and too many things.


Greetings,
  Robert
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