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FetchContent: Deprecate FetchContent_Populate(depName)

Projects should use FetchContent_MakeAvailable(depName) instead, which supports all options that FetchContent_Declare() supports. The FetchContent_Populate() function does not support some of the more recently added options which are specific to FetchContent_MakeAvailable(), such as SYSTEM, EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL. More importantly though, using FetchContent_Populate(depName) prevents users from using a dependency provider for that dependency. Therefore, deprecate the use of FetchContent_Populate() where just the dependency name is passed as an argument (which is the form that uses previously recorded details from an earlier call to FetchContent_Declare()). Policy CMP0169 provides backward compatibility for projects that still call FetchContent_Populate(depName).

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