[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add new rpmExpandThisMacro() public method (#1414)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

> > spectool was rewritten to use RPM Python bindings, so I imagine at least it would matter for that tool.
> 
> Hardly. There's precisely _one_ rpm.expandMacro() in the entire new spectool code, and that doesn't involve parametric macros or anything else advanced, it's merely to expand %_sourcedir.

That's true, however, it is reasonable to assume that other programs written in Python would need to do this, especially as parametric macros become more common. RPMLint does this in some places too. _I've_ written code to use `rpm.expandMacro()` for personal tools too...

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