gh-141004: Mark up docs of old PyMem macros (GH-143783)

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):
- https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/api/memoryInterface.html
- https://docs.python.org/release/1.6/api/memoryInterface.html

Since PEP 445, they are now direct aliases; there are no (additional) binary compatibility concerns over the preferred names.
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@ -293,17 +293,39 @@ The following type-oriented macros are provided for convenience. Note that
Same as :c:func:`PyMem_Free`.
In addition, the following macro sets are provided for calling the Python memory
allocator directly, without involving the C API functions listed above. However,
note that their use does not preserve binary compatibility across Python
versions and is therefore deprecated in extension modules.
* ``PyMem_MALLOC(size)``
* ``PyMem_NEW(type, size)``
* ``PyMem_REALLOC(ptr, size)``
* ``PyMem_RESIZE(ptr, type, size)``
* ``PyMem_FREE(ptr)``
* ``PyMem_DEL(ptr)``
Deprecated aliases
------------------
These are :term:`soft deprecated` aliases to existing functions and macros.
They exist solely for backwards compatibility.
.. list-table::
:widths: auto
:header-rows: 1
* * Deprecated alias
* Corresponding function or macro
* * .. c:macro:: PyMem_MALLOC(size)
* :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc`
* * .. c:macro:: PyMem_NEW(type, size)
* :c:macro:`PyMem_New`
* * .. c:macro:: PyMem_REALLOC(ptr, size)
* :c:func:`PyMem_Realloc`
* * .. c:macro:: PyMem_RESIZE(ptr, type, size)
* :c:macro:`PyMem_Resize`
* * .. c:macro:: PyMem_FREE(ptr)
* :c:func:`PyMem_Free`
* * .. c:macro:: PyMem_DEL(ptr)
* :c:func:`PyMem_Free`
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
The macros are now aliases of the corresponding functions and macros.
Previously, their behavior was the same, but their use did not necessarily
preserve binary compatibility across Python versions.
.. deprecated:: 2.0
.. _objectinterface: