I'm trying to submit an upgrade of Firebird RDBMS to version 3.0 and I encountered an issue with other packages depending on its libraries, namely libreoffice. Firebird 2.5 provided two libraries with the same API: libfbclient and libfbembed. The libfbclient library allows to connect to a firebird server (local or remote) via TCP while libfbembed allows a direct access to a database stored in a local file (also called embedded server mode). LibreOffice and some other software use the "embedded server" library to store data in a local database file as a smarter alternative to e.g. sqlite. In openSUSE, we have three devel packages: firebird-devel (with common files, including all header files) libfbclient2-devel (libfbclient.so and fbclient.pc) and libfbembed-devel (libfbembed.so and fbembed.pc). With version 3.0, both access modes are now provided by a single library, libfbclient. I added Provides and Obsoletes for both libfbclient2-devel (the "2" was an old mistake) and libfbembed-devel but that doesn't really help. First, a package linking against -lfbembed won't be really satisfied by libfbclient-devel package. Second, this doesn't resolve build dependency on pkgconfig(fbembed) which libreoffice uses (and an explicit "Provides: pkgconfig(fbembed)" won't help even if it works). One idea is to provide a fbembed.pc file with Libs and Cflags copied from fbclient.pc so that any package using pkgconfig would still build. But that doesn't seem to be a clean solution. It would be nice if one could say "require either libfbclient-devel >= 3 or libfbembed-devel" but I don't think it's possible. Any other ideas? Or is it something that needs to be sorted out in packages depending on libfbembed? Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org