diff --git a/libxkbcommon.changes b/libxkbcommon.changes
index ee22890..d546bbc 100644
--- a/libxkbcommon.changes
+++ b/libxkbcommon.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep  9 16:36:07 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Switch to library versioning as described in Shared Library
+  Packaging guidelines. This permits installation of multiple
+  libxkbcommons.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 21 19:31:26 UTC 2014 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/libxkbcommon.spec b/libxkbcommon.spec
index 536e7d8..fed5567 100644
--- a/libxkbcommon.spec
+++ b/libxkbcommon.spec
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 Name:           libxkbcommon
 Version:        0.4.3
 Release:        0
+%define lver    0_4_3
 Summary:        Library for handling xkb descriptions
 License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
@@ -51,11 +52,11 @@ should be perfectly usable for client toolkits, as well as alternative
 windowing systems, compositors and system-level clients such as
 Wayland and kmscon.
 
-%package -n libxkbcommon0
+%package -n libxkbcommon-%lver
 Summary:        Library for handling xkb descriptions
 Group:          System/Libraries
 
-%description -n libxkbcommon0
+%description -n libxkbcommon-%lver
 xkbcommon is a keymap handling library, which can parse XKB
 descriptions (e.g. from xkeyboard-config), and use this to help its
 users make sense of their keyboard input. Unfortunately, X11's
@@ -64,18 +65,18 @@ should be perfectly usable for client toolkits, as well as alternative
 windowing systems, compositors and system-level clients such as
 Wayland and kmscon.
 
-%package -n libxkbcommon-x11-0
+%package -n libxkbcommon-x11-%lver
 Summary:        Library for handling xkb descriptions using XKB-X11
 Group:          System/Libraries
 
-%description -n libxkbcommon-x11-0
+%description -n libxkbcommon-x11-%lver
 An addon library that supports creating keymaps with the XKB X11
 protocol by querying the X server directly.
 
 %package devel
 Summary:        Development files for the libxkbcommon library
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
-Requires:       libxkbcommon0 = %version-%release
+Requires:       libxkbcommon-%lver = %version-%release
 
 %description devel
 xkbcommon is a keymap handling library, which can parse XKB
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ in libxkbcommon.
 %package x11-devel
 Summary:        Development files for the libxkbcommon-x11 library
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
-Requires:       libxkbcommon-x11-0 = %version-%release
+Requires:       libxkbcommon-x11-%lver = %version-%release
 
 %description x11-devel
 xkbcommon is a keymap handling library, which can parse XKB
@@ -116,24 +117,21 @@ extra_opts=--disable-x11
 %endif
 # Ensure people will use pkgconfig to locate headers.
 %configure --disable-static --includedir="%_includedir/pkg/%name" $extra_opts
-# libxkbcommon has added symbols between 0.2.0..0.4.2 without maintenance;
-# force some versioning.
-echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >xkb.sym
-make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1 LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/xkb.sym"
+make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1 AM_LDFLAGS="-release %version"
 
 %install
 make install DESTDIR="%buildroot";
 rm -f "%buildroot/%_libdir"/*.la;
 
-%post   -n libxkbcommon0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -n libxkbcommon0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%post   -n libxkbcommon-x11-0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -n libxkbcommon-x11-0 -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%post   -n libxkbcommon-%lver -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -n libxkbcommon-%lver -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%post   -n libxkbcommon-x11-%lver -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -n libxkbcommon-x11-%lver -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
-%files -n libxkbcommon0
+%files -n libxkbcommon-%lver
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc COPYING NEWS
-%_libdir/libxkbcommon.so.0*
+%_libdir/libxkbcommon-%version.so
 
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -146,10 +144,10 @@ rm -f "%buildroot/%_libdir"/*.la;
 %_libdir/pkgconfig/xkbcommon.pc
 
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1315
-%files -n libxkbcommon-x11-0
+%files -n libxkbcommon-x11-%lver
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc COPYING NEWS
-%_libdir/libxkbcommon-x11.so.*
+%_libdir/libxkbcommon-x11-%version.so
 %endif
 
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1315