RPM 4.11.2 Release Notes

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Fix removed symlinks affecting fingerprinting (RhBug:???)
Fix bogus dependency check errors from installed packages with self-obsoletes and -conflicts
Fix bogus header growth on export in some circumstances, such as install (RhBug:953719)
Fix byteorder for 64bit tags on big-endian systems (RhBug:1012946)
Fix signature generation using RPMSIGTAG_LONGSIZE when not needed (RhBug:1012595)
Fix segfault executing a -p scriptlet without a body ([RhBug:1004062](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004062))
Fix failure to install relocated package with unowned directories (RhBug:1001553)
Fix scriptlets in relocatable packages not always executing with $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX* defined (RhBug:979443)
Fix RPMTAG_NOSOURCE and RPMTAG_NOPATCH tags defined as non-arrays (RhBug:991329)
Fix a possible loophole in file triplet sanity-checking
Fix name service initialization where passwd and group service differs from host (ticket #157)
Add support for ppc64le architecture

Fix double-free on %caps() wildcard %files entry (RhBug:956190)
Fix sub-package names not getting sanity-checked (RhBug:1039520)
Fix invalid separators in EVR passing sanity checking
Fix some invalid characters in dependency range operators passing sanity checking
Fix autogenerated dependencies bypassing sanity-checking (related to RhBug:503846)
Fix python libdirs in non-root prefix not getting bytecompiled (RhBug:868332)
Fix (remove) bogus %__find_requires and %__find_provides macro definitions in macros.perl (RhBug:1043149)
Fix (really) debugedit choking on .debug_gdb_scripts section (SuseBug:818502)
Fix %autosetup git patch application to handle file additions (RhBug:1059285)
Add automatic generation for appdata() and application() provides
Add support for (quoted) whitespace in automatically generated dependencies (RhBug:503846)

Fix mode and flags not honored when reopening a file descriptor as rpm.fd
Fix RPMFILE_ICON and RPMFILE_SPECFILE constants missing
Fix rpm.dsSingle() swapped arguments (regession introduced in rpm 4.8.0)
Fix Python 3 compatibility issues in rpm.TransactionSet class
Fix module import succeeding on rpm initialization failure
Add .open() class-method to rpm.fd
Add open-mode and -flags to rpm.fd as properties
Add support for reopening an rpm.fd file descriptor
Add accessor for spec %check section
Add bindings for rpm stringpool
Add support for shared stringpool with rpm.fi and rpm.ds objects (optional pool argument to constructor)

Fix minor memory leak in %files parsing
Fix rpmstrPoolRehash() missing last id
Fix string pool artifacts (unreliable rpmstrPoolNumStr(), empty strings showing up on rehash etc) caused by dummy entries
Fix unnecessary /proc dependency if getauxval(3) is available
Fix various minor issues in beecrypt crypto backend
Fix possible mishandling of handing environment open on EACCESS and EROFS returns
Optimize / cleanup %attr() and %defattr() string storage
Optimize dependency set management in file classifier
Optimize MPI length validation
Optimize beecrypt crypto backend