PiPedal 1.2.33 initial commit

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+The pipedal_nm_p2pd service manages PiPedal P2P connections on Debian bookworm or later distros.
+
+Debian Bookworm switchs the entire network stack from the deprecated dhcpcd/NetworkManager 
+stack to the current NetworkManager stack. Unfortunately, NetworkManager does not 
+provide support for P2P Wi-fi direct. 
+
+NetworkManager P2P support is abysmal, providing no support whatsoever 
+for P2P GOs. Furthermore, a bug in NetworkManager prevents anyone else from providing a P2P GO 
+solution through wpas_supplicant. Specifically, NetworkManager call RemoveInterface on any P2P 
+group that it didn't start itself, even if p2p-dev-wlan-0 is marked as unmanaged.
+
+The solution: Configure NetworkManager to mark wlan0 as an unmanaged interface. This allows
+the pipedal_nm_p2pd service to manage p2p sessions via wpa_supplicant without interference from
+NetworkManager. Unfortunately, that means that PiPedal can't run wi-fi connections anymore when 
+running Wifi p2p connections. If the NetworkManager project provides sensible support 
+for p2p in future, we will look at it again.
+
+This project uses DBus interfaces, which is a significant improvement on the use of 
+wpa_cli sockets in the old pipedal_p2pd module.
+
+Dependent packages:
+
+
+    sudo apt install libsdbus-c++-dev
+    sudo apt install libsdbus-c++-bin