[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)

[Kevin Kofler]

I think your definition of "necessary" differs significantly from mine. RPM will not break down if this incompatible change is not made (or reverted, now that you pushed it), so I do not see why it is necessary.

And to give some context: as a maintainer of [TIGCC](http://tigcc.ticalc.org/), I was consistently reverting that kind of changes to our patched GCC (C only though, because we did not support C++ (whose GCC frontend is much worse in this respect) for other, unrelated reasons). I did all I could to maintain backwards source compatibility all the way to the initial alpha release of TIGCC and I strongly believe that this should be the standard to which to hold all compilers. E.g., the TIGCC patch reenables multiline C string literals, C casts as lvalues, etc. So I am not just a passive complainer.

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