Strange RPM versioning problem in qemu in Rawhide

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 13:37 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Below are two packages.  The first one is installed, the second one is
> built for Koji.  Yum refuses to upgrade the installed package to the
> second one, saying:
> 
> Examining qemu-0.15.0-0.2.2011072859fadcc.fc17.x86_64.rpm: 2:qemu-0.15.0-0.2.2011072859fadcc.fc17.x86_64
> qemu-0.15.0-0.2.2011072859fadcc.fc17.x86_64.rpm: does not update installed package.
> 
> But I don't understand why, since it seems clear that the second
> package has a higher release than the first package.
> 
> In any case, this appears to be a bug in the versioning of these
> packages, since the "0.2" part of the release string should have been
> changed to "0.3" when it was built.
> 
Indeed it should, though like you, I am not sure why.  with the date
change, the release is higher and should be a clear update.  When I
tried to submit the update to bodhi, I got the same thing. Though I am
doing another update today.

Justin