[Pkg-giraffe-maintainers] [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#857377: kopano-dev: fails to upgrade from 'jessie' - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmapi.so

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:50:27AM +0100, Mark Dufour wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> > Mark,
> > as mentioned from Guido in another email could you please discuss a
> > possible name change of libmapi.so with your colleagues?
> 
> jan mentions:
> 
> "Other than libmapi.so (which is a development file), there is not even a conflict since openchange uses libmapi.so.0 and zarafa/kopano has libmapi.so.1. And Debian does not seem to have an issue with a similar constellation involving libkrb5.so.3 (MIT Krb) and librkb5.so.26 (Heimdal Krb).."
> 
> we could of course change the name on our side, but we're not sure it would be worth the effort in this case..?

MIT and Heimdal at least attempt to implement the same API and in theory you
should be able to link against either library. libmapi from Zarafa and from
OpenChange have a very distinct API, even if they were both originally inspired
by MAPI on Windows.

Jelmer