[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add support for generating buildinfo file as subpackage (#1532)

[Bernhard M. Wiedemann]

Interested in something like this for openSUSE. We already have something comparable called `_buildenv` (XML) e.g. in https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/openSUSE:Factory/bash/standard - but that is created on the obs_worker level.

[ArchLinux](https://archlinux.org/pacman/BUILDINFO.5.html) seems to have their own format with = as delimiter.
In most places, the buildinfo files can probably be handled as opaque files and just things like source,binary,version would be interesting outside. That is not hard to extract in either format, so there is no strong reason to follow Debian here.

OTOH, this is not a .spec file, but just another output from the build process, similar to the build log, so it does not need to follow rpm conventions either.

So from my view, using either the Debian or ArchLinux (marshalling) format has some advantage over making up a third format. 

Though, I would not keep confusing Debianisms in keys that will not be meaningful outside of the respective distribution.

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