apk's versioning scheme does not match pkg-config's, but it is still used to verify pkg-config versions
Currently, abuild uses apk to verify pkg-config versions[1]. This causes issues with libraries that use versions like 43.alpha, which is acceptable to pkg-config (admittedly I'm not sure if pkgconf accepts this) but not apk. For my purposes, it would be preferable if abuild could be changed to verify this in a manner that matches the versions accepted by pkg-config as currently these libraries (and users of these libraries) need to be patched to use versions compatible with apk, which isn't ideal.