[Distutils] PEP440 "Local versions" idea in rpm/deb?

[Daniel Holth]

www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html

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The following tags are used by RPM to produce the package's final
name. Since the name is always in the format:

<name>-<version>-<release>

it's only natural that the three tags are known as name, version, and release.
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On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> PEP440 has the "local version" idea to distinguish locally patched projects
> from upstream versions.
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#local-version-identifiers
>
> e.g.  Django-1.6.4-1  for a locally patched Django-1.6.4 to place on a local
> index.
>
> Although it doesn't relate directly to this list, I know Nick (the PEP440
> author) works with Redhat, so for understanding, what's the parallel in rpm
> (or deb)?  is there a documented concept for this, because I can't seem to
> find anything other than post releases.
>
> Marcus
>
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