[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Allow to exclude files from %doc (#1298)

[Michal Domonkos]

The `%doc` directive is just syntactic sugar for:
1. Install the given file in the build directory into the build root
2. Specify its absolute path in `%files`

Now, `%doc` and `%license` are "special" files (as @ignatenkobrain noted) which are only processed *after* the normal file entries, meaning that an `%exclude` on such a file won't have any effect.

There are two ways to work around this (limitation) in the SPEC file:
1. Don't use `%doc` and just install the files manually in the `%install` section (and optionally `%exclude` some afterwards, as usual)
2. Whitelist the desired files in `%doc` (globs are accepted there)

Fixing this in RPM would be possible, I believe, the question is whether we really should. It seems like a rather niche use case and workarounds exist. I'll leave this open for now and discuss with the team.

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