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i18n: avoid substitution of PYFILES at runtime for readability of output

This substitution decreases readability of "make update-pot" output,
because PYFILES consists of many files.

This patch makes "make update-pot" show "find mercurial hgext doc
-name '*.py'" instead of many *.py files at runtime.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.