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interfaces: introduce and use a protocol class for the `base85` module

See f2832de2a46c for details when this was done for the `bdiff` module.

It looks like PEP-688 removed the special casing of `bytes` being a standin
for any type of `ByteString`, and defines a `typing.Buffer` class (with a
backport in `typing_extensions` for Python prior to 3.12).  There's been a lot
of churn in this area with pytype, but recent versions of pytype and PyCharm
recognize this, and e.g. have `mercurial.node.hex()` defined as:

    from typing_extensions import Buffer

    def hex(data: Buffer, sep: str | bytes = ..., bytes_per_sep: int = ...) -> bytes

This covers `bytes`, `bytearray`, and `memoryview` by default.  Both of the C
functions here use `y#` to parse the arguments, which means the arg is a
byte-like object[2], so the args would appear to be better typed as `Buffer`.
However, pytype has a bug that prevents using this from `typing_extensions`[3],
and mypy complained `Unsupported left operand type for + ("memoryview")` in the
pure module on line 37 (meaning it's only a subset of `Buffer`).  So hold off on
changing any of that for now.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0688/#no-special-meaning-for-bytes
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-bytes-like-object
[3] https://github.com/google/pytype/issues/1772

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.