perl routines for rpm comparison wished

[Anne POSSOZ <Anne Possoz Epfl Ch>]

Before we spent sometime writing a set of perl subroutines
that would nicely compare the name of 2 rpm packages to
determine which one is more recent, I would like to ask
if anybody (certainly better than me in perl) has some
interesting proposition. I would love that it includes
treatement of "pre", "beta", "STABLE" and all kind of invented
names.

The reason to ask is that I am sure that many people need
that as a tool.

Thanks.

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