Most test scripts use "hg" to interact with a temporary test repository.
However a few tests also want to run hg commands to interact with the local
repository containing the mercurial source code. Notably, many of the
test-check-* tests want to check local files and commit messages.
These tests were previously using the version of hg being tested to query the
source repository. However, this will fail if the source repository requires
extensions or other settings not supported by the version of mercurial being
tested. The source repository was typically initially cloned using the system
hg installation, so we should use the system hg installation to query it.
There was already a helpers-testrepo.sh script designed to help cope with
different requirements for the source repository versus the test repositories.
However, it only handled the evolve extension. This new behavior works with
any extensions that are different between the system installation and the test
installation.
This is a much larger commit than I'd like, but I honestly don't see a
good way to break it up and leave things working. Summary:
We now use debian/rules with debhelper to build our debs. This is much
more standard, and means we use dh_python2 to do things like handle
leaving .pyc files out of the built debs.
The resulting package is split into mercurial and mercurial-common,
with the former being the hg stub and all the native .sos, and the
latter being basically everything else.
builddeb and dockerdeb are updated to use the new system. The old way
(using dpkg by hand) breaks with the above changes because
debian/control no longer contains a version string (that's now guessed
from the phony changelog.)
Tests are updated to assert that the right files end up in the right
debs.
