Deprecate `Events::oldest_id` (#15658)

# Objective

Fixes #15617 

## Solution

The original author confirmed it was not intentional that both these
methods exist.

They do the same, one has the better implementation and the other the
better name.

## Testing

I just ran the unit tests of the module.

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## Migration Guide

- Change usages of `Events::oldest_id` to `Events::oldest_event_count`
- If `Events::oldest_id` was used to get the actual oldest
`EventId::id`, note that the deprecated method never reliably did that
in the first place as the buffers may contain no id currently.