spec: Don't expect clients to support obsolete message buses

The newest release of the reference message bus that did not support
GetConnectionCredentials was 1.6.30, almost a decade ago.
It's entirely reasonable for new code to assume that
GetConnectionCredentials will succeed, and not implement a fallback.

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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<para>
This method was added in D-Bus 1.7 to reduce the round-trips
required to list a process's credentials. In older versions, calling
this method will fail: applications should recover by using the
separate methods such as
this method will fail: applications wishing to support obsolete
message bus versions can recover by using the separate methods such as
<link linkend="bus-messages-get-connection-unix-user">GetConnectionUnixUser</link>
instead.
</para>