[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM 4.20.1 (Discussion #3585)

[Michal Domonkos]

This is primarily a bugfix release addressing a handful of regressions in RPM 4.20.0 as well as various other issues.

## What's Changed

### Enhancements

* Packaging: Add support for [fully locked](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13522) user accounts (via the new `u!` flag) in `sysusers.d(5)` files (#3450).
* Building: RPM release tarballs (`.tar.bz2`) are now generated in a reproducible and hermetic environment using GitHub Actions (#2702).

### Fixes

* Command-Line: Fix a regression where `rpmsign(8)` could corrupt the packages on signing operations (affected RPM >= 4.18.1) (#3469).
* Command-Line: Fix a regression where `rpmspec(8)` would emit extra output in query mode for `BuildSystem` specs (#3413).
* Command-Line: Fix `rpmdb --exportdb` failing when the database is on read-only media (#1266).
* Command-Line: Fix `rpmkeys(8)` failing when no keys are present in the keyring (#3378).
* Command-Line: It was possible to sign files in `.src.rpm` packages with `rpmsign(8)`, which has been corrected. (#3470).
* Transactions: Fix unmodified `%config` files (and possibly more if `%_minimize_writes` is enabled) being removed in case of an unpack failure (affected RPM >= 4.14.0) (#3284).
* Transactions: Fix sqlite rpmdb growing over time (#3309).
* Transactions: Lua deprecation warnings were also shown for packages built with an RPM version where the functions weren't yet deprecated, which has been corrected (#3270).
* Transactions: Packages without `RPMTAG_ARCH` or `RPMTAG_OS` are not legitimate packages but were still possible to install, which has been corrected (#3344).
* Packaging: Fix a regression where manual invocation of `%debug_package` caused problems when invoked in spec files directly (#3290).
* Packaging: Fix a regression where an empty build directory was left behind on `rpmbuild -bs` (#3382).
* Packaging: Fix a regression in build-id generation from compressed ELF files (#3463).
* Packaging: Fix a race condition when running multiple `rpmbuild(8)` instances in parallel with a non-existent `%{_tmppath}` (#3508).
* Packaging: Fix symlinked `.la` files not getting removed from the buildroot (#3304).
* Packaging: Fix brp-strip in regex-unsafe buildroots (#3492).
* Plugins: Source packages triggered plugin hooks when unpacked with `rpm -i`, which has been corrected (#3470).
* Plugins: Don't let the IMA plugin fail the transaction if it's running in a rootless container where IMA isn't supported (#3234).
* Plugins: Fix unshare plugin failure when installing to a chroot (#3187).
* Configuration: When editing a macro file in place, the text editor may place a backup file (e.g. with the `~` suffix) in the same directory, causing RPM to load it at startup and possibly override the original macro definitions. To help prevent that, RPM now ignores filenames with non-alphanumeric characters when looking for macro files to load (#3373).
* Documentation: Man pages have seen various formatting and punctuation fixes (#3511).

**Full Changelog**: [`rpm-4.20.0-release...rpm-4.20.1-release`](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/compare/rpm-4.20.0-release...rpm-4.20.1-release)


<hr /><em>This discussion was created from the release <a href='https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/releases/tag/rpm-4.20.1-release'>RPM 4.20.1</a>.</em>

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