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Clarify compatibility goal and core module support

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## Compatibility
We strive to make ddclient usable on a wide variety of platforms.
Please limit yourself to Perl language features and modules available
on the following platforms:
We strive to find the right balance between features, code
maintainability, and broad platform support. To that end, please limit
yourself to Perl language features and modules available on the
following platforms:
* Debian oldstable and newer
* Ubuntu, [all maintained
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are skipped if the modules are not available. Effort should be
taken to only use modules that are broadly available.
You may use any core Perl module as long as it is available in all
versions of Perl we support. (Though please make sure it is listed in
the appropriate `configure.ac` check.) Stated another way: We are not
interested in supporting platforms that lack some core Perl modules,
unless doing so is trivial.
All shell scripts should conform with [POSIX Issue 7 (2018
edition)](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/) or later.