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requirements: no longer drop `generaldelta` requirement with revlogv2

A repository could use a mix of revlogv1 and revlogv2, making the requirements
still necessary. Overall we should move away from the "requirements" file being
used a way to configure the repository and stick to it "what do you need to
access this repository". However this is a wider work for another time.

In addition the logic we just dropped was confusing the `hg debugformat`
command, breaking the upgrade code and inconsistent (eg: `sparse-revlog` is also
implied by `revlogv2`).

Finally, multiple other config option would imply the use of the `revlogv2`
requirements, without drop the `generaldelta` one, leading to more
inconsistency.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10612

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.