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interfaces: create a new folder for interfaces and move repository.py in it

I was trying to understand current interfaces and write new ones and I realized
we need to improve how current interfaces are organised. This creates a
dedicated folder for defining interfaces and move `repository.py` which defines
all the current interfaces inside it.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6741

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This library provides encoding and decoding for the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
(`RFC 7049`_) serialization format.

There exists another Python CBOR implementation (cbor) which is faster on CPython due to its C
extensions. On PyPy, cbor2 and cbor are almost identical in performance. The other implementation
also lacks documentation and a comprehensive test suite, does not support most standard extension
tags and is known to crash (segfault) when passed a cyclic structure (say, a list containing
itself).

.. _RFC 7049: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049

Project links
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* `Documentation <http://cbor2.readthedocs.org/>`_
* `Source code <https://github.com/agronholm/cbor2>`_
* `Issue tracker <https://github.com/agronholm/cbor2/issues>`_