Update a re-imported event rather than skipping it

Contacts and calendars disagreed on a re-import: a vCard or LDIF entry
whose identity a book already held overwrote the card there (#242, #274),
while an event whose UID a calendar held was counted and thrown away
(#222). The asymmetry was never decided -- it was where each half stopped.

Decided on #279: calendars update too, with two properties held back.
`participants` carries every attendee's accepted/declined and
`recurrenceOverrides` holds every "just this Wednesday" edit made here.
Both are decisions taken after the file was written, and a file that
mentions them at all describes them as they were at export, so writing
either one over would destroy work silently and return no error. A
corrected export now fixes the time, the title and the location, and
leaves who said yes alone. `uid` is held back with them: it is what the
two were matched on, so it is already equal.

The scan returns uid -> id rather than a set of UIDs, since updating
needs something to address, and creates and updates now share one
`maxObjectsInSet` budget the way contacts' `writeCards` does -- 300 new
and 300 changed batched separately would be two calls of 300, neither
over a ceiling of 500 and both refused. Counts become created/updated,
reported as the contacts import reports them.

Still no scheduling messages, on an update as much as on a create. That
is a real cost -- an event a re-import moves is moved here and nowhere
else -- and it is the lesser one: an import is not the place to start
mailing a room full of people who never asked for it.

Driven against the mock end to end: a second file with the same UID
updated the event in place, took the file's title, start and location,
and left an accepted RSVP and a per-occurrence override untouched even
though the file carried participants of its own.
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- **iCal import** through `CalendarEvent/parse` (a file of any number of
events), from the calendar's own menu, into that calendar. The events are
filed rather than scheduled: no invitations go out to anyone named in them.
- **Re-importing updates rather than duplicates**, as a contacts import does.
An event is recognised by its UID, per calendar, and what the file carries
wins -- so a corrected export corrects what the first attempt got wrong.
Two things are deliberately left alone: **who accepted**, and **edits to a
single occurrence**. Both are answers and decisions taken here after the file
was written, and a file that mentions them at all describes them as they were
at export, so writing either one over would throw away work silently and
return no error anywhere. A corrected export therefore fixes the time, the
title and the location, and leaves the RSVPs and the "just this Wednesday"
changes where they are.
The cost runs both ways and is worth knowing. An attendee added at the source
since the last import does not arrive, because nothing here can tell that
apart from an answer given in ihasmail. And an import still sends no
scheduling messages, so an event a re-import moves is moved *here* --
everybody else's copy still says the old time until whoever is organising
sends the update from the event itself.
- **Subscribed calendars** by URL — a timetable, a rota, a public holiday list.
Added in Settings Calendar & contacts, read-only, and shown beside your own
with their own colour.