[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] version comparison with epoch does not work as expected (#450)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

> Note that your worry about tar dropping the epoch is a needless one: epochs can never be dropped. Doing so would be a severe packaging bug in tar.

Strictly speaking, this is not true. There are Linux distributions that make it a policy to not carry Epochs forward across releases. openSUSE and (soon) OpenMandriva are examples of distributions with this policy.

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