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ECMGenerateExportHeader: add macros for enumerator deprecation warning

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau requested to merge work/kossebau/addenumeratordepwaringoption into master

With more consumers of KDE Frameworks already moving to using C++17 and not just waiting for that for Qt6, it would be good to also start making use of the enumeration deprecation attributes available with those C++ standards, to apply the compiler as messenger about usage of deprecated enum values and not just rely on the "surprise, it's gone" package via the API visibility controls.

See usage example:

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Edited by Friedrich W. H. Kossebau

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