[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Rust bindings for rpmlib (#429)

[Panu Matilainen]

I'd really recommend avoiding HEADERGET_MINMEM entirely because of all the hidden implications, just use HEADERGET_ALLOC always so you can trust the data isn't going to vanish or move underneath you, like n3npq said you need to manage unallocation anyway for string arrays.

As for handling tag data, you probably don't want to expose rpmtd to rust directly but convert to native representation - that's what the "native" python bindings do. I started adding an actual python binding for the rpmtd object at some point and it just didn't make any sense at all. Encoding generally speaking anybody's guess, but packages built with rpm >= 4.13.0 carry RPMTAG_ENCODING with value of "utf-8" if the strings in the package were all valid utf-8.

FWIW, I don't see a reason why the bindings could not be "hosted" in the rpm-software-management group, it'd be only a good thing to have these things under the same umbrella.

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