Deprecate option :cxx11 and option :universal

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The code handling predefined options was removed back in 74fb058 so these are no-ops given BuildOptions expects with- or without- prefixed option names.

Also remove checks for ENV.universal_binary as that was removed in d733512

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Pull request overview

This pull request removes deprecated predefined options (:cxx11 and :universal) and related code that became no-ops after the BuildOptions refactoring. The PR cleans up technical debt by deprecating symbol-based option syntax in favor of string-based options with with-/without- prefixes.

• Removes the PREDEFINED_OPTIONS constant and special handling for :cxx11 and :universal options
• Adds graceful deprecation for any symbol-based option usage via odeprecated
• Removes RuboCop checks for build.universal? and ENV.universal_binary which were already removed from the codebase
• Updates tests to reflect the removal of special-cased option handling

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File	Description
Library/Homebrew/software_spec.rb	Removes PREDEFINED_OPTIONS constant and simplifies option method to only accept String names
Library/Homebrew/formula.rb	Updates documentation to remove :universal example and adds deprecation handling for symbol-based options
Library/Homebrew/rubocops/options.rb	Removes special cases for "cxx11" and "universal" options from RuboCop checks
Library/Homebrew/rubocops/lines.rb	Removes deprecated checks for build.universal? and ENV.universal_binary
Library/Homebrew/test/software_spec_spec.rb	Removes test for special-cased cxx11 option handling
Library/Homebrew/test/rubocops/text/miscellaneous_spec.rb	Removes tests for deprecated universal binary checks
Library/Homebrew/test/rubocops/options_spec.rb	Removes tests for deprecated 32-bit and universal options, cleans up test case

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