This is a good suggestion and we have dropped release info from the library name. Can you please check out libzdb from svn, build it and verify that the library is named as you requested? 

Checkout from http://code.google.com/p/libzdb/source/checkout

You need re2c (a scanner) to build from subversion. re2c should be available in a fedora package otherwise try http://re2c.org/

On 5. feb.. 2009, at 08.50, Bernard Johnson wrote:



On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <hauk@tildeslash.com> wrote:

On 22. des.. 2008, at 01.14, Bernard Johnson wrote:

> Have you considered generating your sonames to reflect the ABI
> version of the package rather than tying it to the package version?

Submit a patch

This is what I am using as a workaround:
http://fedorapeople.org/~bjohnson/soname-version.patch

This generates the shared libraries (for 2.3) in the format libzdb.so.5.1.0 rather than libzdb-2.3.so.5.1.0.

I don't know enough about the autotools files to generate a proper patch.  It's unlikely that I could get this into Fedora without the upstream blessing of the library versioning.