[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] %exclude should not permit files to bypass check-files and be omitted from all packages built from spec (#994)

[Miro Hrončok]

Ideas for progress:

- [ ] Open a [ticket at Fedora Packaging Committee](https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues) or better send a PR to [File and Directory Ownership](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_file_and_directory_ownership) ([source](https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/blob/master/f/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc#_1379)) explaining why `%exluding` files completely from packages is dangerous and not intended to work and that it MUST not be done.
- [ ] Work with @voxik to change the rubygem package generator.
- [ ] Work with me to solve the Python namespace package issue. For example in [this bugzilla](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1935266). Maybe `%ghosting` is a way to go.
- [ ] Open a ticket on [rpmlint](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpmlint/) to detect completely `%exluded` files. Not sure if it is technically possible, but worth a shot.
- [ ] Open a ticket on [FedoraReview](https://pagure.io/FedoraReview) to detect completely `%exluded` files. Should be possible.
- [ ] In `%files`, collect the list of `%exluded` files and see if all of them are actually packages somewhere. If not, issue a warning that could be knob-ed to an error.

Note that those ideas are not dependent on each other and can happen at different timelines.

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