diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 6b57144792881bb9cda37d43c59d2b8001177981_UkVBRE1FLnJzdA==..c5912e35d06dc5d40769bb3b929fe93ba823b8aa_UkVBRE1FLnJzdA== 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -18,3 +18,13 @@ 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.