It's sounding like most people are comfortable with a policy of "Use upstream version in Version:, unless rpm comparisons will get messed up, in which case you should munge the Release: using the guidelines given".
"unless rpm comparisons will get messed up" translates to "if versions have non-numeric data in them" most of the time. Like I said earlier I'm not opposed to allowing alphabets in versions for post-release updates in sane cases like 1.0 -> 1.0a BUT allowing non-numeric stuff in version leaves a wide opening for mistakes, leading to unnecessary epoch inflation. Epochs ARE evil and confusing to users and packagers as well, much more so than munged version-release tags (simply an empirical observation made over the years on various mailing lists).
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