Stabilization: Fix for sshd_lineinfile template to comply with newer ansible versions

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Description:

• Fix for sshd_lineinfile template to comply with newer ansible version

Rationale:

• New ansible versions are more strict to comparing integers to strings. Package versions ending up as strings cannot be compared to integers in the ansible version function. Therefore ansible code in remediation fails, in cases like in sshd_lineinfile template.

Backport #15022 to stabiliziation

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the Ansible package applicability/version-check macro to be compatible with newer Ansible versions that are stricter about type handling during version comparisons. This is intended to prevent remediation failures (notably in consumers like the sshd_lineinfile template) when package fact fields (e.g., epoch) are not consistently typed.

Changes:

• Adjust RPM epoch handling in ansible_pkg_conditional to coerce the epoch value to an integer before it is used to drive the conditional prefix construction.
• Reduce the chance of type-related failures when evaluating the is version(...) test in newer Ansible releases.

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