evolve: move builddependencies() and _singlesuccessor() to utility module
The builddependencies() and _singlesuccessor() function are very useful
functions and can be used at a lot of places. They are also used in topic
extension also, so let's move them to utility. However moving them to utility
won't help anything in the topic extension.
[flake8]
ignore =
#closing bracket does not match indentation of opening bracket's line
E123,
# closing bracket does not match visual indentation
E124,
# visually indented line with same indent as next logical line
E129,
# at least two spaces before inline comment
E261,
# too many leading '#' for block comment
E266,
# expected 2 blank lines, found 0
E302,
# expected 2 blank lines after end of function or class
E305,
# module level import not at top of file
E402,
# line too long (82 > 79 characters)
E501,
# do not assign a lambda expression, use a def
E731,
# class names should use CapWords convention
N801,
# line break occurred before a binary operator
W503
builtins=xrange, execfile