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help: internals topic for wire protocol

The Mercurial wire protocol is under-documented. This includes a lack
of source docstrings and comments as well as pages on the official
wiki.

This patch adds the beginnings of "internals" documentation on the
wire protocol.

The documentation should have nearly complete coverage on the
lower-level parts of the protocol, such as the different transport
mechanims, how commands and arguments are sent, capabilities, and,
of course, the commands themselves.

As part of writing this documentation, I discovered a number of
deficiencies in the protocol and bugs in the implementation. I've
started sending patches for some of the issues. I hope to send a lot
more.

This patch starts with the scaffolding for a new internals page.

Source: mercurial
Section: vcs
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Mercurial Developers <[e-mail]>
Build-Depends:
 debhelper (>= 9),
 dh-python,
 netbase,
 python-all,
 python-all-dev,
 python-docutils,
 unzip,
 zip
Standards-Version: 3.9.4
X-Python-Version: >= 2.6

Package: mercurial
Depends:
 python,
 ${shlibs:Depends},
 ${misc:Depends},
 ${python:Depends},
 mercurial-common (= ${source:Version})
Architecture: any
Description: fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool.
 Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed
 for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.
 .
 Its features include:
  * O(1) delta-compressed file storage and retrieval scheme
  * Complete cross-indexing of files and changesets for efficient exploration
    of project history
  * Robust SHA1-based integrity checking and append-only storage model
  * Decentralized development model with arbitrary merging between trees
  * Easy-to-use command-line interface
  * Integrated stand-alone web interface
  * Small Python codebase

Package: mercurial-common
Architecture: all
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends},
 ${python:Depends},
Recommends: mercurial (= ${source:Version}), ca-certificates
Suggests: wish
Breaks: mercurial (<< ${source:Version})
Replaces: mercurial (<< 2.6.3)
Description: easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system (common files)
 Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed
 for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.
 .
 This package contains the architecture independent components of Mercurial,
 and is generally useless without the mercurial package.