[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Document how to easily use `%{uncompress}` to expand source archives (Issue #4148)

[Vít Ondruch]

voxik left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#4148)

> That this works now is basically an unintended side-effect 

I thought that might be the case

> than just call it by that name (%__rpmuncompress)

Frankly, using double underscore macro does not feel any better than then `-x` option.

Just FTR, I am exploring if this is a possibility, because if I remember correctly, rpmlint complains about unused sources when they are expanded by plain tar. Using some standard macro could help to mitigate this (and also I have hard times remembering the `tar` expand options 🙈).

And yes, I am aware of `-b` / `-a` options of `%setup`. But using `-a` I risk inadvertently including something into resulting RPM and using `-b` means that I have to ln / cp / mv test sources into the buildroot in `%check` section. I wish there was some standardized option to expand test archives in there.

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