[Bug 731907] package in EPEL has bogus version

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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 2011-08-19 04:32:12 EDT ---
The version number is like it is to maintain the upgrade path from previous
versions with 4-digit version numbers such as 0.2603 that upstream has released
in the past. Reverting to upstream's current 2-digit format would require an
epoch bump, which would still make the EPEL package rpm-newer than packages
containing more recent code from elsewhere, unless they too did the same epoch
bump. It is unfortunate that perl's and rpm's ideas of version numbering don't
line up with each other; that's the underlying cause of the problem.

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