spec: Deprecate hyphen/minus in well-known names

We don't really need two parallel forms of punctuation, and in
particular DNS domain names only have one (hyphens). If we choose one
representation and deprecate the other, it makes the recommendation
clearer for app authors.

This reflects a similar change to the Desktop Entry Specification,
which uses D-Bus well-known names as app IDs. While hyphens are not a
problem for D-Bus well-known names or for freedesktop.org app IDs,
they create problems for adjacent APIs and specifications that want to
use a well-known name in a context where hyphens are not allowed.
Hyphens are not allowed in D-Bus object paths and interface names,
are only conditionally allowed in Flatpak app IDs (they can only
appear in the last element), and have a special syntactic role in
Freedesktop icon names.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103216
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103914
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>

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