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typing: add `from __future__ import annotations` to most files

Now that py36 is no longer supported, we can postpone annotation evaluation.
This means that the quoting is usually optional (for things imported under the
guard of `if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:` to avoid circular imports), and there's less
overhead on startup[1].

There may be some missing here.  I backed out 6000f5b25c9b (which removed the
`from __future__ import ...` that was supporting py2), reverted the changes in
`contrib/`, `doc/`, and `tests/`, and then ran:

    $ hg status -n --change . | \
        xargs sed -i -e 's/from __future__ import .*$/from __future__ import annotations/'

There were some minor tweaks needed when reviewing (mostly making the spacing
around the import consistent, and `mercurial/testing/__init__.py` had a
multiline import that wasn't fully rewritten.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#pep-563-postponed-evaluation-of-annotations

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.