It could be transformed into
$ rpmdev-vercmp 4.1.0 4.1.0~rc1
4.1.0 > 4.1.0~rc1
According to current guidelines, rc1 belongs to release tag.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_pac...
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