Using special version numbers breaks (older) distutils

On Windows the 0.5.4p2 version number breaks distutils when I want to create a MSI as follows:

python setup.py bdist_msi

Copying lib\SQLAlchemy.egg-info to build\bdist.win32\msi\Lib\site-packages\SQLAlchemy-0.5.4p2-py2.5.egg-info
running install_scripts
creating dist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 69, in <module>
    "Topic :: Database :: Front-Ends",
  File "c:\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "c:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "c:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\command\bdist_msi.py", line 215, in run
    sversion = "%d.%d.%d" % StrictVersion(version).version
  File "c:\Python25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in __init__
    self.parse(vstring)
  File "c:\Python25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse
    raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring
ValueError: invalid version number '0.5.4p2'

I would kindly ask to avoid such numbers in the future.

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