[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Enhance requires with version information from the build root. (PR #2372)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

> > add a versioned requires. (libcurl.so.4()(64bit) → libcurl.so.4()(64bit) >= 4.8.0).
> 
> The whole point of sonames is that it's NOT tied to versions but the soname abstraction, and this kind of dependency breaks that point.

I can think of one real-world case this would have broke: the SDL -> sdl12-compat transition. While _now_ the version numbers are ahead, they weren't initially. This would have caused way too much pain to deal with.

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