Question on version numbers

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To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Question on version numbers
From: Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:30:29 +0200
Reply-to: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,
just because I'm inquisitive. What's the purpose of version numbers with
a colon? I've seen this in several packages, e.g. this one [1]. Upstream
version number is 5.0.2 and arch version number is 1:5.0.2.

Regards,
Stefan

[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-setuptools/

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