[issue41186] distutils.version epoch compatibility

[Bar Harel]

New submission from Bar Harel <bzvi7919 at gmail.com>:

Is distutils.version aware of the PEP440 epoch version modifier? I haven't seen any reference to this.

AFAIK pypa packaging does take it into consideration, but should the stdlib also care about it?

I would like to believe pip takes it into consideration but not sure if it uses distutils, or that setuptools have their own versioning scheme together with pkg_resources.

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components: Distutils
messages: 372765
nosy: bar.harel, dstufft, eric.araujo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils.version epoch compatibility
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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