alternatives: add support for "family" parameter (#9096)

* alternatives: added parsing and setting of 'family' for an alternative

* alternatives: added checks for path nullability

* alternatives: added idempotence when setting alternative using family

* alternatives: added family to diff mode

* alternatives: added tests for family

* alternatives: updated documentation and examples

* alternatives: added constraints for 'path' and 'family' parameters.

in any invariants at least one of the parameters must be specified

* alternatives: added changelog fragment

* removed unnecessary check

* added version

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

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Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
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minor_changes:
- alternatives - add ``family`` parameter that allows to utilize the ``--family`` option available in RedHat version of update-alternatives (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5060, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9096).