[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Add a %buildrequires section as an alternative to lots of BuildRequires: headers (Discussion #3549)

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

With rpm 4.20, we get `%sourcelist` and `%patchlist` to simplify the headers and make the spec file shorter and cleaner.
It would be equally useful, for the same reasons, to be able to replace
```
BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libxyz)
BuildRequires: pkgconfig(anotherlib) pkgconfig(yetanotherlib)
BuildRequires: cmake(andAnotherOne)
BuildRequires: whatever-devel >= 1.2-3
```
with the shorter
```
%buildrequires
pkgconfig(libxyz)
pkgconfig(anotherlib)
pkgconfig(yetanotherlib)
cmake(andAnotherOne)
whatever-devel >= 1.2-3
```
The same goes for runtime dependencies (but IMO that's less important, given most runtime dependencies are detected automatically anyway and they don't need huge lists in the spec).

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