[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add a man page for RPM dependency generators (PR #3957)

[Michal Domonkos]

@dmnks commented on this pull request.



> +exported to generators, on a subpackage basis:
+
+*%{name}*++
+*%{epoch}*++
+*%{version}*++
+*%{release}*
+
+Added: 4.15.0
+
+## Parametric macros
+
+If a generator is declared as a parametric macro, the macro itself is called for
+dependency generation, with the filename as its first argument (*%1*). The macro
+expansion itself is considered as the generated dependencies, one per line.
+
+This allows for writing efficient and powerful generators, especially when

Lol, indeed. I'll move to the original piece of text here, which was:
While RPM's own macro primitives are limited, using %{lua} enables the writing of complicated, macro-only generators.

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