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  1. Bug #913623
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Comment 1 for bug 913623

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In , Hannes (hannes-redhat-bugs) wrote :

This seems like a nice to have feature, so I wanted to forward it from rpm.org's trac (currently read-only):

From <http://rpm.org/ticket/56>:
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It would be nice when a special handling of '~' would be introduced to mark "negative" version tokens. E.g. so that

| foo-1.0~beta < foo-1.0

holds. This would simplify complicated rulesets which deal with such naming schemes by abusing %release for it.
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