--- filelist-10.3	2007-03-07 22:36:02.000000000 +0100
+++ /suse/rguenther/bin/filelist-10.3	2007-04-03 11:45:14.126405000 +0200
@@ -280,6 +280,70 @@
 	  echo "Adding new SuSEconfig scripts is not accepted for openSUSE 10.2 and newer"
 	  UNVALID_FILE_FOUND=true
 	;;
+	# library packaging policy, first a whitelist
+	*/libz.so*|\
+	*/libbz2.so*|\
+	*/libgnarl-*.so|\
+	*/libgnat-*.so)
+	;;
+	# .so and .la files not in /, glibc is an exception
+	/lib/lib*.so|\
+	/lib64/lib*.so|\
+	/lib/lib*.la|\
+	/lib64/lib*.la)
+	  PRPM=`package_name $RPM`
+	  case $PRPM in
+	  glibc)
+	  ;;
+	  *)
+	    echo $PRPM: \""$LINE"\" shall be beyond /usr
+	    UNVALID_FILE_FOUND=true
+	  ;;
+	  esac
+	;;
+	# .so files and .la files only in -devel subpackages
+	*/lib/lib*.so|\
+	*/lib64/lib*.so|\
+	*/lib/lib*.la|\
+	*/lib64/lib*.la)
+	  PRPM=`package_name $RPM`
+	  case $PRPM in
+	  *-devel)
+	  ;;
+	  *)
+	    echo $PRPM: \""$LINE"\" is not allowed in a non-devel package
+	    echo WARNING: Your package would fail here!
+	    #UNVALID_FILE_FOUND=true
+	  ;;
+	  esac
+	;;
+	# shared libaries only in lib* packages with the .so version
+	# appended
+	*/lib/lib*.so.*|\
+	*/lib64/lib*.so.*)
+	  SOVER=`echo $LINE | sed -e 's/^.*\.so\.\([0-9]\+\).*$/\1/'`
+	  PRPM=`package_name $RPM`
+	  case $PRPM in
+	  glibc|\
+	  pam|\
+	  lib*$SOVER|\
+	  lib*$SOVER-32bit|\
+	  lib*$SOVER-64bit|\
+	  lib*[0-9]|\
+	  lib*[0-9]-32bit|\
+	  lib*[0-9]-64bit)
+	  ;;
+	  lib*)
+	    echo $PRPM: \""$LINE"\" should be in a lib package with the
+	    echo        .so version $SOVER appended, like $PRPM$SOVER
+	  ;;
+	  *)
+	    echo $PRPM: \""$LINE"\" is not allowed in a non-lib package
+	    echo WARNING: Your package would fail here!
+	    #UNVALID_FILE_FOUND=true
+	  ;;
+	  esac
+	;;
 	# allowed, but not nice to have:
 	/afs|\
 	/afs/*|\