[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#254][comment] Replace LooseVersion with pkg_resources.parse_version

[martbab]

  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/254
Title: #254: Replace LooseVersion with pkg_resources.parse_version

martbab commented:
"""
I have a sneaky suspicion that the parse_version couldn't cope correctly with some of the downstream versioning schemes like RHEL z-stream releases and such.

That should be OK with API version, but client/server versions can pose a problem. There is are some examples in the ipatests/test_ipaserver/test_version_comparison.py I made when solving a bug that was caused by incorrect version comparison. Can you check if parse_version can handle them correctly?
"""

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