Posted May 24, 2012 20:15 UTC (Thu) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)
In reply to: RPM 4.10 released by pranith
Parent article: RPM 4.10 released
From Debian/dpkg. According to the relevant bug in the RPM bug tracker, they copied the behaviour from dpkg, and the commit message says "Add support for dpkg-style sorting of tilde in version/release".
This was more targetted at the people who know it, though, they don't need the context.