[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] %generate_buildrequires should not trigger the debuginfo machinery (Issue #1870)

[Florian Festi]

OK, I think I have an idea what's wrong here:

If `%install` is encountered after/as part of `%prep` debuginfo does not work. The reason is that `%prep` is first parsed and `%setup` - which is setting `%buildsubdir` - is only executed after the whole `%prep` section is processed and all macros are expanded.
As a result `%buildsubdir` is not yet set when `%install` is encountered and expanded into the debuginfo magic. But the debuginfo foo checks for `%buildsubdir` as it probably needs that.

So, `%generate_buildrequires` is an innocent bystander here and the golang-x-net package relied on the broken behavior to "switch off" debuginfo creation.

Two things are to fix here:

- Bringing sanity to the debuginfo hacks (#2204)
- Turn `%setup` and `%patch` at least into proper internal macros (yes, we tried before and it's not that easy)

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