Why is the release 0.<something involving jpp> when 5.5.27 doesn't appear to be a pre-release on tomcat's website?
This is fixed.
Does the policy really say that 0 can only be used for prereleases? Anyway, it might not be an upstream tomcat prerelease version, but it was an upstream JPackage prerelease version at the time.
Let's get spot to clarify.
You really should try to reserve the 0 for prereleases. If you had some overwhelmingly compelling reason to use it, then I'd probably let it slide, but it is important to try to keep rpm package ordering as sane as possible.