Comment 14 for bug 633742

Just for information, being somehow linked to this RFE, i think.

There was already been proposed in 2006 at least, if not before, as was useful to standardize the EVR between RPM and DEB.

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-August/001491.html
"Using dpkg's EVR comparison instead of rpmvercmp"