[Rpm-metadata] [patch] fix to make _stringToVersion match rpm's parseEVR behavior

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:11 +0100, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> while looking into one of our bugs, I found that createrepo's
> _stringToVersion didn't match rpm's parseEVR. Please find the patch
> attached.
> 

What keeps the epoch from being an alpha?

-sv