[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] rpm --query --package` silently fails for non-existing files containing tilde (Issue #2069)

[Michal Domonkos]

To elaborate, the culprit is that a tilde is considered a "magic" char and thus is passed to `glob(3)` for expansion (as @yangchenguang94 correctly noted above) where it (and `rpmGlob()` by extension) doesn't produce any matches. Since we currently ignore such unmatched globs in `rpm --query --package`, they're just silently skipped.

This is being changed in #2159 where an unmatched glob is returned, making the code actually try to open it, just like it would a non-glob filename, which fails with a proper error message and return code.

The actual root cause here is the that the tilde has different semantics based on where it appears in a path, i.e. it's the home directory path or a version modifier, respectively, and we treat it as the former in `rpmGlob()`. This is not being changed in the above PR, however that doesn't matter much as the outcome will be the same.

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