[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] %_enable_debug_packages can cause debuginfo on noarch packages (Issue #3115)

[Panu Matilainen]

Commit 8535694599ee7f35747d44e2ea0a62dc5e8880e5 hinged the entire debuginfo generation logic around %_enable_debug_packages, including getting it right (disabled) for noarch packages from the platform configuration macros. The problem with that, %_enable_debug_packages is *intended* to be a distro/user configuration knob, whose configuration is read after the platform config. So when a distro explicitly enables sets `%_enable_debug_packages 1` it overrides it even for noarch, causing build failures. 

Luckily its easy to work around: add back the ifnarch test to %debug_macro (or comment out %_enable_debug_packages from distro config for now). But this clearly shows that setting this in platform configuration doesn't cut it, we need to rethink our approach. %_enable_debug_packages is this high-level knob where 0 means "never" and 1 means "create when possible/relevant", and we currently interpret as "always" instead.

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