[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] %license (and similar tags) should take priority over other listings and RPM shouldn't warn about files listed twice (Issue #2144)

[Miro Hrončok]

We have talked about this with @torsava and I feel like the explanation here is a bit hard to understand, so let me try some examples:

We'd like the following examples:

```
%files
/foo/bar
%license /foo/bar/baz/LICENSE
```

```
%files
/foo/bar
%doc /foo/bar/baz/howto.txt
```

```
%files
/foo/bar
%lang(cs) /foo/bar/langs/cs.frr
```

and similar directives to: 

 - Not warn about the file listed twice
 - Ensure the marker (license, doc, etc.) is applied¹

The alternative is tedious:

```
%files
%dir /foo/bar
/foo/bar/<all the files except baz listed manually>
%dir /foo/bar/baz
/foo/bar/baz/<all the files except LICENSE listed manually>
%license /foo/bar/baz/LICENSE
```

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¹ From experience, I can tell that this is *almost always* true but I have seen a situation where it was not the case.

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