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gh-141004: Mark up docs of old PyMem macros #143783

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These had a docs-only deprecation notice since the first version of the docs in this repo. Nowadays we call things "soft deprecated" if there's just a note in the docs.

The deprecated directive needs a version, I went with the first one that had the notice (2.0; it's not in 1.6).

Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names.

Issue: Document the entire C API #141004

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Their docs-only deprecation notice appeared 2.0:
https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html
but not 1.6:
https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html
Nowadays we call this soft deprecation.
Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional)
binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names.