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rust: update the minimum version of Rust

Debian Bullseye has just been released, and it carries `rustc 1.48.0`.

This actually implies a regression that we can't really do anything about in
`rhg`. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/88825. In short, closed (or
bad) standard file descriptors are reopened silently with no way of telling by
the Rust runtime before `main` is executed. This means that closed fds are not
forwarded to the subprocess we run in case of fallback. This is a bit sad, but
probably not something worth worrying too much about.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11341

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.