Comment # 7 on bug 916424 from Takashi Iwai

(In reply to Christian Boltz from comment #6)
> Just as an (untested) idea:
> 
> 3.18.3-1.3 packages could contain something like
>     %define version_without_rebuild_number = 3.18.3-1
>     Provides: %name-build = %{version_without_rebuild_number}
>     Conflicts: otherprovides(%name-build) = %{version_without_rebuild_number}
>     (or maybe s/Conflicts/Obsoletes/)
> to let it conflict with other packages that only differ in the rebuild
> counter.

Hm, but won't it result in just raising the conflict to the upper level?
zypper would still ask users to resolve, I guess.

> Or, KISS fix, just use the full release number (including rebuild count) for
> the file and directory names ;-)

This would result in varying file contents at each package rebuild, and it's
what I'd like to avoid.