Library namespace conflicts
Hello,
So here I am trying to package fragroute, by Dug Song. I've
done a pretty big overhaul of libevent and fragroute source trees when I
notice that the "libdnet" that fragroute depends on is not the DECnet
library: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libdnet.html
Instead, it is his _own_ library, available here:
http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/
Now it looks like OpenBSD already has his version in the ports
tree, so it is the canonical name _somewhere_. What do I do? I can't
just rename the package, because both libraries provide libdnet.a.
Sending patches upstream has elicited no response; so I'm pretty sure
that an e-mail asking him to rename his library is going to be equally
fruitful. *sigh*
Simon
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