Remove the in-tree `flate` crate

Remove the in-tree `flate` crate

A long time coming this commit removes the `flate` crate in favor of the
`flate2` crate on crates.io. The functionality in `flate2` originally flowered
out of `flate` itself and is additionally the namesake for the crate. This will
leave a gap in the naming (there's not `flate` crate), which will likely cause a
particle collapse of some form somewhere.