Boot fallback, flowtable devices that come and go, healthz, renames

The boot unit fails closed: if ruleset.nft doesn't load, it loads
ruleset-fallback.nft (render.Fallback), saved beside it from the same
configuration: nothing new in from external zones, established, the
ICMPv6 IPv6 needs and DHCPv6 replies let in, the inside left alone and
masqueraded, and the unit marked failed with a critical message.
housecarld replaces it when it applies; status, the dashboard and
/healthz say while it is in force. no_external_zone now also says the
fallback closes everything without an external zone.

The boot ruleset has no flowtable: nftables on Debian 13's kernel
refuses one naming a device that doesn't exist yet (ppp0 before PPPoE),
and with it the whole file. internal/linkwatch listens to rtnetlink link
messages; housecarld applies again when a flowtable device appears or
comes back as a new interface (by ifindex), under the engine's lock.
docs/flowtable.md: what it does, when to use it and when not, how.

GET /healthz reports firewall (applied, unconfigured, fallback,
missing), changes on probation and the machine's warnings, with 503
unless in force, read at most every five seconds.

Renaming a zone, set or service changes what names it in the same
change (one history entry, one undo); dynamic sets keep their names.
The importer keeps a chain's head in order: once a would-be built-in
stays a rule, the ones after it do too, so the maintainer's ICMPv6
accepts stay behind the invalid drop as written. hc settings set
--flowtable none empties the list.

make test (nft 1.1.3) and make e2e (242 checks, with VLAN
sub-interfaces, the fallback and the flowtable) pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| `tls.cert_file`, `tls.key_file` | none | serve HTTPS with this certificate; housecarld rereads it when the file changes, or on `systemctl reload housecarl` |
| `tls.acme.*` | off | get the certificate from Let's Encrypt, with Jarl publishing the challenge ([certificates.md](certificates.md#settings)) |
| `jarl.server`, `jarl.token_file` (or `jarl.token`), `jarl.ca_cert`, `jarl.insecure` | none | the Jarl server for the certificate's challenge, and its token ([jarl.md](jarl.md)) |
| `ruleset` | `/var/lib/housecarl/ruleset.nft` | the confirmed ruleset, which `housecarl-ruleset.service` loads at boot |
| `ruleset` | `/var/lib/housecarl/ruleset.nft` | the confirmed ruleset, which `housecarl-ruleset.service` loads at boot; its fallback is saved beside it as `ruleset-fallback.nft` ([operations.md](operations.md#if-the-ruleset-fails-to-load-at-boot)). Change both paths in the unit too |
| `trusted_proxies` | `[]` | addresses or prefixes of reverse proxies whose `X-Forwarded-For` and `X-Forwarded-Proto` are believed |
| `socket` | `/run/housecarl/housecarl.sock` | the local API socket; `""` turns it off |
| `database` | `/var/lib/housecarl/housecarl.db` | the SQLite database: configuration, history, users, audit log |