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ci: bump pytype to 2022.03.29

This is as far as we can go without running into issues with the vendored `attr`
package.  I tried updating that to the latest, and not only did it not fix the
issue, but test-util.py failed due to some poking at `attr` internals that
apparently is no longer valid.

The `libcst` package is now pinned to what I have locally because trying to
install the latest (0.4.7) complains that it can't find the Rust compiler.  We
should probably use a requirements file instead (and/or figure out why it can't
find the Rust compiler), but I don't feel like dealing with another side quest.

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.