This patch switches the CI from Travis-CI to GitHub Actions.
The new CI script drops support for Python 3.4 (EOLed 18 March 2019) and
Python 3.5 (EOLed 13 September 2020), though it keeps support for Python
2.7 (EOLed 1 January 2020). This keeps the CI configuration a lot
simpler.
The new CI script also simplifies code coverage: a single coverage
report is produced for Python 3.9 on Ubuntu. There are no coverage
statistics being collected and uploaded for older versions of Python 3,
Python 2, or other OSes.