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revlog-native: introduced ABI version in capsule

Concerns that an inconsistency could arise between the actual contents
of the capsule in revlog.c and the Rust consumer have been raised after
the switch to the array of data and function pointers in f384d68d8ea8.

It has been suggested that the `version` from parsers.c could be use for
this. In this change, we introduce instead a separate ABI version number,
which should have the following advantages:

- no need to change the consuming Rust code for changes that have nothing
  to do with the contents of the capsule
- the version number in parsers.c is not explicitely flagged as ABI. It's
  not obvious to me whether an ABI change that would be invisible to Python
  would warrant an increment

The drawback is that developers now have to consider two version numbers.

We expect the added cost of the check to be negligible because it occurs
at instantiation of `CIndex` only, which in turn is tied to instantiation
of Python objects such as `LazyAncestors` and `MixedIndex`. Frequent calls
to `Cindex::new` should also probably hit the CPU branch predictor.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7856

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>