Add supports and deprecate the country specific sections

[bfabio]

publiccode.yml has no generic way to say which standards, regulations or national platforms a software supports. Today the only place for it is a country section, so anything that isn't Italian has nowhere to go, and the Italian one hardcodes a fixed set of booleans (piattaforme/*, conforme/*).

This adds a generic supports key.

Each entry is id: alias: resolved through a documented list of aliases, or a plain URI.

Everything the Italian section did is now expressible generically, so the whole Italian section and the country specific sections mechanism are deprecated.

See #242.
See #304.

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[bfabio]

@yaml-9000 minor

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This is now marked as a minor-change proposal to the standard,
this means that old versions of publiccode.yml will still be valid with this change.

Example of minor changes are additions of new keys or making keys optional.

The next eligible voting round will take place on May 30, 2026

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[bfabio]

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