[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Resolve --what<depends> arguments to package provides (PR #2451)

[Panu Matilainen]

One of the recurring bugs reported on rpm is that --whatrequires returns unexpected results because it only queries for the literal capability string passed as argument whereas people usually *mean* all dependencies of that package.

Change --whatrequires and friends to resolve the argument to a package label by default and then run the original query for each of package's provided capabilities. Note that --whatprovides always operates on the actual argument, resolving is not a sensical operation for that.

Fixes: #2439, #2450
You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:

  https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2451

-- Commit Summary --

  * Resolve --what<depends> arguments to package provides

-- File Changes --

    M docs/man/rpm.8.md (7)
    M include/rpm/rpmcli.h (1)
    M lib/poptQV.c (2)
    M lib/query.c (45)

-- Patch Links --

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2451.patch
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2451.diff

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