<p>As mentioned above this got rejected already and things have not changed since. We just can't change the way version comparison works as thousands of packages rely on it and any change will break lots of them. Tilde and caret could only be added as they were not allowed previously.<br>
See <a href="http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2016-September/000411.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2016-September/000411.html</a> for more details.</p>

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