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Deleting a ContentGuard should be disallowed if it is "in use"

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Description

Consider the discussion in RPM issue https://github.com/pulp/pulp_rpm/issues/4554

Distributions have the same problem, with ContentGuards. If I delete a CG, suddenly every Distribution protected by it becomes a public Distribution. I believe that the same argument being made for 4554 applies here - we should put the onus on the user to take action to "detach" CGs before deletion, rather than doing it "to" them.

See https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/blob/main/pulpcore/app/models/publication.py#L652 for the line we'd need to change

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Start at pulpcore/app/models/publication.py around line 652 and compare the deletion behavior with the discussion in RPM issue 4554. The change is complete when deleting a ContentGuard that is still used by a Distribution is disallowed, leaving detachment as an explicit user action.

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python
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backend
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Bug
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