Update Renovate configuration to best practices #6140
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Which problem is this PR solving?
This upgrades the renovate preset to follow the best practices rather than just the recommended as outlined in https://docs.renovatebot.com/upgrade-best-practices/
The difference is the addition of the following profiles/rule-sets:
In effect this gives us insight packages which have been abandoned, allows for automatic migration of legacy config options and also rules for dev dependencies.
This also aligns the settings with what the spec repo uses https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/.github/renovate.json.