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obsolete: compute successors set

Successors set are an important part of obsolescence. It is necessary to detect
and solve divergence situation. This changeset add a core function to compute
them, a debug command to audit them and solid test on the concept.

Check function docstring for details about the concept.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import errno, os, sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print f, '->', os.readlink(f)
    except OSError, err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print f, 'not a symlink'

sys.exit(0)