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revlog: replace revlog._io.size with a new revlog.index.entry_size

The `revlogio` class is mostly a relic from the past. Once in charge of the full
revlog related Input/Output code, that class gradually lost responsibilities to
the point where more IO are now done by `revlog.index` objects or revlog objects
themself. I would like to ultimately remove the `revlogio` class, to do so I
start simple with move the "entry size" information on the index. (The index is
already responsible of the binary unpacking, so it knows the size.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10309

Mercurial
=========

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
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

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
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.