[Distutils] PEP 386 and post-releases

[Nick Coghlan]

In re-reading PEP 386, I noticed that the "Version Specifiers" section
explicitly excludes post releases like "2.5.post1" or "2.5.1.post1"
from matching a request for "2.5". I can understand excluding all
pre-releases from a general request like "2.5", but why exclude post
releases? Aren't those intended to fix minor release issues that don't
warrant a version number bump? As in, if I have a choice between
"2.5", "2.5.post1" and "2.5.post2", isn't "2.5.post2" going to be the
one I want, rather than "2.5"?

Cheers,
Nick.

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