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sslutil: add support for clients to set TLSv1.3 as the minimum protocol

AFAICT, all of the TLS versions are supported by the server without doing any
explicit work, and there's only a `devel` config to specify an exact version on
the server side.  Clients would also use TLSv1.3 if available, but this prevents
the server from negotiating down.  This also causes "tls1.3" to be listed in
`hg debuginstall`, even though it was previously supported (if the Python
intepreter supported it- IDK if there's a good way to proactively test for and
show future protocols without requiring manual updates like this).

The v1.3 tests are nested inside the v1.2 tests for simplicity.  The v1.2 blocks
already assume v1.0 and v1.1 support, so this seems reasonable for now.  If/when
the older protocols start getting dropped, this will have to be reworked anyway.

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