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debugcommands: add support for extensions adding their own debug info

We've had a couple of cases where it'd be handy at Google to add data
to `hg debuginstall`'s output. We've kludged around that at various
times, but it seems reasonable to let extensions add their own data
here so extension maintainers can get useful extra data.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6681

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.