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Document the supported Debian distribution versions #286

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@gbartolini

As part of the issue raised in #277, we have realised that we have not done a good job defining the supportability of Debian versions. The sudden removal of bullseye from the official Postgres Docker images has forced us to build system images with the new bake system.

We need to add a clear section in the main README file about the distribution versions we support, with dates and links to the official Debian page: https://www.debian.org/releases/

We will guarantee the build of the images for a distribution until the EOL and provide best-effort support to guarantee the build until LTS. Once a distribution is past EOL, we declare it deprecated.

For example:

Name Version Release date EOL LTS
Trixie 13 2025-08-09 2028-08-09 2030-06-30
Bookworm 12 2023-06-10 2026-06-10 2028-06-30
Bullseye (deprecated) 11 2021-08-14 2024-08-14 2026-08-31

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