[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Size-related queries appear broken on v6 packages (Issue #3836)

[Panu Matilainen]

pmatilai created an issue (rpm-software-management/rpm#3836)

While technically people should have moved to use "longsize" and "longfilesizes" ~15 years ago with rpm 4.6, most queries using the old tags will have been working fine because that's what most v4 packages have. With v6 packages *all* those queries are broken:

```
$ rpm -q --qf "%{rpmformat}\n" rpm-libs
6
$ rpm -q --qf "%{size}\n" rpm-libs
(none)
$ rpm -q --qf "[%{filesizes}\n]" rpm-libs
$ 
```

We can explain technicalities all we like, but to a user this will just look like a regression. We need to find *some* way to make this work, while preserving all the necessary ABI + API demands. Ticket #2760 ruminates on the possible ways to address the issue, but I think this actually needs to be tracked as a bug for the above.

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