version/release identification for packages

["Gene C." <czar czarc net>]

There seems to be this desire to put oddball version/release identifiers for 
packages.  First, in FC2-T1 there was util-linux 2.12pre-3 being updated with 
2.12-4 but rpm and up2date consider the older package to be newer.  Now, for 
FC1 the recent update for tcpdump has 3.7.2-7.1 being updated by 
3/7/2-7.fc1.1 but (again) the older packages is considered newer (and the 
same is true for libpcap 0.7.2-7.1 being updated by 0.7.2-7.fc1.1).

For folks just letting up2date figure out what needs to be updated, this is a 
major problem.  Please stop doing this.
-- 
Gene