[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] rpmconstant API should exist in librpm itself (#992)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

The problem with "randomly" defined tags is that the lack of consistency means that RPMs can become incompatible with each other, simply by using the same spots in the rpm header for different purposes. I suppose if the tag names were discoverable from the header (e.g. with rpmconstant API), then this would be less of a problem, since we wouldn't rely on fixed addresses for tags in the enum...

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