Version comparison with "+repack"

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Hi,

my package "saods9" has currently a RC release in experimental that is
named

7.5~rc+repack-1

Now, upstream released a second RC which I want to upload as well:

7.5~rc2+repack-1

However, it turns out that this release is actually *smaller* than the
first RC release? I originally thought that the "+" is chosen because it
will not interfere with the upstream versioning?

dpkg --compare-versions 7.5~rc+repack  lt 7.5~rc2+repack && echo lt || echo ge
ge

What is the best way to fix this?

Best regards

Ole