When a mutable file's TTL expires and the upstream backend cannot be
contacted (network error or timeout), the cached copy is kept and its
TTL refreshed instead of being evicted. This keeps RPM repodata, Alpine
indexes, branch archives, and other mutable data available during
upstream outages.
Adds UpstreamUnreachable exception and _upstream_reachable() helper.
check_upstream_changed() now raises UpstreamUnreachable on network
errors (was silently returning True). handle_expired_mutable() catches
the exception on the check_mutable_updates path and calls
_upstream_reachable() on the plain-expiry path.
README updated to current immutable/mutable terminology and documents
all new caching features.
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