[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add rpm-sort utility for sorting RPM versions (PR #2249)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

> Yes it happens a lot, in one highly specific corner. Which is often best served by having that specific corner handle it because it has its own wrinkles that do not apply elsewhere, like version comparing the name here.
> 
> In principle, Debian versioning isn't _that_ different from rpm. If 'sort -V' is good enough (if not perfect) for them then it should be close enough for government work for us too. Not that I have looked at the details, maybe the details differ more than it seems on the outset.
> 

It works accidentally. If `~` is used, it doesn't sort downward (which dpkg and rpm support). And of course, rpm has `^` now, which `sort -V` definitely doesn't know.

I'd rather have an `rpmsort` that I could call directly...

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