[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Fixes to PGP packet length decoding detection and calculation (#1701)

[Demi Marie Obenour]

> 5-octet lower limit check dropped.
> 
> As the old saying goes, be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept. We can't go adding artificial limits to existing standards.

Agreed, unless there is a very good reason to do so.  For instance, a new feature I plan on adding to RPM will allow RPM to check that a package is in a canonical form; this will require that signatures be encoded in a certain manner.

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