feat(xdebug): switch Xdebug off in the PHP worker

Composer restarts itself with Xdebug unloaded because Xdebug makes PHP
several times slower. Xdebug is never loaded into this process, so what
needs dealing with is the PHP worker: it is spawned with
`-d xdebug.mode=off` and `XDEBUG_MODE=off` (Xdebug reads the environment
variable first and lets it override every ini setting), which makes its
module init return before it installs any executor, compile, error or
opcode hook.

Rewriting the ini files and re-executing, the way xdebug-handler does,
would additionally cover Xdebug 2, which hooks unconditionally and has no
equivalent setting. That is not worth its machinery here: Xdebug 2 caps
out at PHP 7.4, while every PHP version Composer supports can run
Xdebug 3.

What remains of XdebugHandler is small enough to live beside the worker
it governs, so its crate is gone and its callers inline it. isXdebugActive
answers false without asking PHP whenever the worker is switched off, so a
command that needs no PHP does not spawn one just for the Xdebug warning;
diagnose reports what the worker measures instead, which still surfaces an
Xdebug that ignores the setting. PlatformRepository has no unloaded
extension to restore, since switching the mode off leaves it loaded.

COMPOSER_ORIGINAL_INIS is neither written nor read: it exists so a
restarted process can name the ini files it replaced, and IniHelper can
report the worker's own. IniHelperTest injects through that variable, so
none of its cases are ported.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+# Xdebug
+
+Composer restarts itself without Xdebug loaded, because Xdebug makes PHP
+several times slower. Shirabe is written in Rust, where Xdebug does not exist,
+but it invokes a PHP command for plugins, scripts and platform queries.
+When Shirabe spawns a PHP worker, Xdebug is disabled as Composer does.
+
+The PHP worker is spawned with the `-d xdebug.mode=off` flag and the
+`XDEBUG_MODE=off` environment variable. The way to disable Xdebug in Shirabe is
+different from Composer: Composer restarts its own process with a temporary
+INI file, where Xdebug extension is disabled. The difference probably does not
+matter, both for users and for plugin authors.
+
+## Enable Xdebug in Shirabe's PHP worker
+
+It is the same as Composer: setting `COMPOSER_ALLOW_XDEBUG` to 1 makes Shirabe
+leave Xdebug enabled.
+
+```
+$ COMPOSER_ALLOW_XDEBUG=1 shirabe install
+```
+
+## Xdebug 2 support
+
+Shirabe does not try to disable Xdebug version 2 because Xdebug 2 has no
+`xdebug.mode` or `XDEBUG_MODE`, while Composer disables Xdebug 2 too. The
+performance penalty seems to be small as Shirabe's CPU-heavy workloads are
+written in Rust.