copyright: undust the copyright notice to reflect current state
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There is about 100 different contributors, so lets concentrate on the main ones.
(I tried to find if this block could be improved/expanded, but somehow ended up going in the opposite direction.)
We could run hg log and count the amount of commits in the repo per author, if needed. But the question is: considering it's easy to pull full and detailed authorship statistics from a VCS nowadays, who cares about copyrights in this file and to what extent? AFAIU this file is just to check license compatibility with Debian, and, since this field is pretty free-format, we can say what https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel/-/blob/branch/default/CONTRIBUTORS file say: "see changelog directly".
The best reference I can find is is https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
In any case, the previous list was obviously wrong (2011 only and you're not even mentioned).
I suppose it would be ok to supplement the others by "(see changelog directly)".
For context, here's the copyright file in Mercurial Debian package. Excerpt: