[Distutils] Amend PEP 440 with Wider Feedback on Release Candidates

[Donald Stufft]

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> I’ve had a number of people complain that PEP 440 normalizes a release
> candidate as 1.0c1 instead of 1.0rc1. Do we want to ammend the PEP to switch
> the normalization around so that it normalizes 1.0c1 to 1.0rc1? This probably
> matches what people expect better in general? It wouldn't have any effect on
> sort order or the like, it would just change which form is preferred.
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Just so people know, here’s a PR to packaging that implements this
https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/19.

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