https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627084
--- Comment #7 from Fabio Valentini decathorpe@gmail.com --- Because I think periods in package names look weird and wrong.
According to [0], including the periods is a SHOULD, not a MUST:
"The package version, which SHOULD include the periods present in the original version."
[0]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming?rd=Packaging:NamingGuideline...