rephrased introduction

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That's why Distutils needs to provide a robust standard and reference
implementation to compare versions numbers.
This will also provide to the community a convention for their package
versioning needs.
Proposal
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Current status
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In Python there are no real restriction yet on how a project should manage
its versions, and how they should be incremented. They are no standard
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for OS packagers, that need to have stricter conventions. The worst case is
when a packager is unable to easily compare the versions he needs to package.
This PEP proposes to change the `version` module in Distutils with a new one
that complies with the needs.
Existing version systems
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There are two main systems in Python:
For people that want to go further and use a tool to manage their version
numbers, the two major ones are:
- The current Distutils system [#distutils]_
- Setuptools [#setuptools]_