MAINT: allow the apply_list_of_updates function to be used elsewhere

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This extracts the old push_identifiables_to_caosdb function from the crawler and allows other programms to use the logic.

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src/caosadvancedtools/crawler.py

@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ class Crawler(object):
                 self._cached_find_or_insert_identifiables(cfood.identifiables)
 
                 cfood.update_identifiables()
-                self.apply_list_of_updates(
+                apply_list_of_updates(
                     cfood.to_be_updated,
                     cfood.update_flags,
                     update_cache=self.update_cache,