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util: restore the util.pickle symbol

This was accidently dropped in df56e6bd37f6, which started importing pickle
directly.  That commit explicitly says it will retain it for compatibility with
external stuff though.

The unused import in pycompat isn't flagged because that module is skipped.
Just importing with a comment seemed cleaner than `import X as Y` and then
assigning to a `pickle` variable, just to avoid the pyflakes warning.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12419

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
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Notes for packagers
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Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
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to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.