[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add `TestRequires` (Discussion #3504)

[Colin Walters]

It's really common for software to have separate requirements to build versus actually run - and that distinction today exists in `BuildRequires` vs `Requires`.

Except...at build time in RPM today, the `%check` typically invokes at least unit tests of the software, and it's not uncommon at all for unit test suites to pull in some or all of the runtime requirements.

There's no way to express the difference; these have to be `BuildRequires` today - and for bootc for example I added `BuildRequires: skopeo`.

But there are valid use cases for building RPMs without running the test suite such as architecture bootstrapping. 

I think it'd be cleaner if we had `CheckRequires` for example (or `TestRequires`) that are defined to be present when running `%check` (and for clean root builds, *not* when running `%build`).

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