[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] appdata -> appstream, add support for metainfo files (#98)

[Matthias Klumpp]

@Conan-Kudo I understand this confusion, as in the early days AppStream was indeed "what distros ship" and the upstream metainfo files followed later, being part of AppStream and making the whole naming a mess. Since naming is especially important for a spec, this stuff is now sorted out properly:
 * Data shipped by upstream projects is called *metainfo* and stored in `/usr/share/metainfo` (or the legacy location `/usr/share/appdata` - whether the files are named `.appdata.xml` or `.metainfo.xml` doesn't matter, but convention is to name the metainfo files for applications `.appdata.xml`
 * Data shipped by distributors is called *collection metadata* and stored in `/usr/(share|lib|cache)/app-info/<format>`


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