localrepo: reinstate localrepo.parents with a deprecation warning The function was dropped in 3fe8cb40c9c5. This API drop brokes three of my extensions including some critical to my workflow like tortoisehg. Lets mark this API for death and give people time to fix their code.

bookmark: deprecate 'bmstore.write' method This function does not collaborate with the transaction and must disappear. As we have likely a lot of third party users, we make it deprecated to let them some time to upgrade their code. Thanks goes to Laurent Charignon for cleanup the last remains of the 'write' method.

ui: add a 'deprecwarn' helper to issue deprecation warnings As discussed on the list, we are adding an official way to keep old API around for a short time in order to help third party developer to catch up. The deprecated API will issue developer warning (issued by default during test runs) to warn extensions authors that they need to upgrade their code without instantaneously breaking tool chains and normal users. The version is passed as an explicit argument so that developer think about it and a potential future script can automatically check for it. This is not build as a decorator because accessing the 'ui' instance will likely be different each time. The message is also free form because deprecated API are replaced in a variety of ways. I'm not super happy about the final rendering of that message, but this is a developer oriented warning and I would like to move forward.

ui: add a 'stacklevel' argument to 'develwarn' This allows helper functions (like deprecation warning) to prepare a devel warning for higher up in the stack. The argument is named after the one in the Python's 'warning,warn' function.

import-checker: tell which symbol causes "direct symbol import" This would be sometimes useful to understand why import-checker.py complains about it.

import-checker: allow absolute imports of sub modules from local packages Before this patch, import-checker.py didn't know if a name in ImportFrom statement are module or not. Therefore, it complained the following example did "direct symbol import from mercurial". # hgext/foo.py from mercurial import hg This patch reuses the dict of local modules to filter out sub-module names.