Re: Release rules Was: Re: [Monotone-devel] conflicts store vs show_conflicts

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:17:38AM -0600, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
>
> So I think basically rpm requires X.Y.Z even/odd scheme in order to  
> distinguish release/dev. Which is annoying.

The colon classification system had a scheme where some symbols would 
collate before end-od-string.  They used lower-case letters for this, so 
    75a came before 75
    75 came before 75A
Are there any such characters for use with the well-known package 
managers?

-- hendrik