[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: support conditional patch application in %autosetup (Issue #3110)

[Panu Matilainen]

Currently %autosetup only supports conditional patch application by either conditionalizing the patch declarations (which leads to inconsistent src.rpms). The other alternative is falling back to %autosetup -N and manual patch application with (ranged) %autopatch and/or plain %patch, both of which are error-prone.

While ideally you don't carry conditional patches, real world often disagrees. We need a better way to handle this, something that removes the need for humans to deal with individual patch numbers while preserving them all in the src.rpm. One possible idea could be supporting multiple (named) %patchlist sections that are generally applied in the order they appear in the spec, but allow conditionalizing by the name/keyword, eg `%patchlist -k s390` whose patches are only applied if %bcond s390 is true. 

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