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… protos (#1074)

* feat: add Firestore CloneDatabase support

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This PR onboards `google-cloud-firestore` to librarian.

Blocked on #1061.

Fixes googleapis/librarian#2458 🦕

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Fixes #<issue_number_goes_here> 🦕

A few types were missing, which makes it hard to use Firestore with
strict typechecking.

Autogenerated gapic update

Includes:
- support for mTLS by default when the environment detects it
- support for pipelines protos

Fixes a broken link in the contributing guide

feat: update image to
us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-sdk-librarian-prod/images-prod/python-librarian-generator@sha256:b8058df4c45e9a6e07f6b4d65b458d0d059241dd34c814f151c8bf6b89211209

PR created by the Librarian CLI to initialize a release. Merging this PR
will auto trigger a release.

Librarian Version: v0.7.0
Language Image:
us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-sdk-librarian-prod/images-prod/python-librarian-generator@sha256:b8058df4c45e9a6e07f6b4d65b458d0d059241dd34c814f151c8bf6b89211209
<details><summary>google-cloud-firestore: 2.22.0</summary>

##
[2.22.0](v2.21.0...v2.22.0)
(2025-12-16)

### Features

* support mTLS certificates when available (#1140)
([403afb0](403afb08))

* Expose tags field in Database and RestoreDatabaseRequest public protos
(#1074)
([4983639](49836391))

* Add support for Python 3.14 (#1110)
([52b2055](52b2055d))

* Added read_time as a parameter to various calls (synchronous/base
classes) (#1050)
([d8e3af1](d8e3af1f))

### Bug Fixes

* update the async transactional types (#1066)
([210a14a](210a14a4))

* improve typing (#1136)
([d1c730d](d1c730d9))

</details>