Update flake8 for new tool support and more reliable output parsing.

Review Request #11558 — Created March 27, 2021 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

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release-3.0.x

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This updates Flake8Tool to subclass the newer BaseTool, and to
use the newer features it offers (dependencies, improved centralized
base command building, and standardized error code/column output).

The reporting actually parses the CodeClimate format. Flake8 supports
plugins for reporters, and one of them, flake8-json, offers
CodeClimate output. This is a format that many other tools support, so
it makes sense to use it wherever possible. A new utility function has
been added to convert these payloads into comments.

We unconditionally depend on flake8-json for the CodeClimate support,
even if flake8 itself isn't installed. This is a small dependency, and
ensures we don't need to worry about having users install yet one more
thing.

Unit tests pass on Python 2.7 and 3.x.

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