[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Deprecate numberless %patch and %patchN (PR #1981)

[Panu Matilainen]

Like the code says, "use %patch N (or %patch -P N)"

`%patch N [...]` is the saner variant, because there always needs to be at least one patch number specified so the number is a required argument, options are ... just options. Unfortunately `-P N` is the more compatible variant, due to the wacko semantics removed in the first commit.

It's fun. Digging up Fedora specs turns up for example this: `%patch -p1 -P 0 1 2 3 4`. Which ends up applying all three four patches, but one of them through the -P option and three as arguments. Makes a whole lot of sense, not :D

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