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

[Jeff Johnson]

Ornamenting epoch values with explicit magic like '*' is irrelevant to this discussion about how a missing epoch in tar = 1.28 should compare to an explicit epoch in tar = 2:1.26.

For starters, epoch is a digit string followed by a ':', and '*' is a non-numeric character that pretends at DWIM pattern matching.

In fact, '2' would be the saner choice than '*' to solve the tar comparison issue.

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