diff --git a/mercurial/cmdutil.py b/mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ from .revlogutils import (
 )
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .interfaces import (
+        status as istatus,
+    )
     from . import (
         ui as uimod,
     )
@@ -796,7 +799,7 @@ class dirnode:
                 yield st, fpath
 
 
-def tersedir(statuslist, terseargs):
+def tersedir(statuslist: istatus.Status, terseargs) -> istatus.Status:
     """
     Terse the status if all the files in a directory shares the same status.
 
diff --git a/mercurial/context.py b/mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py
+++ b/mercurial/context.py
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ from . import (
     testing,
     util,
 )
+from .interfaces import (
+    status as istatus,
+)
 from .utils import (
     dateutil,
     stringutil,
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ class basectx:
 
     def _buildstatus(
         self, other, s, match, listignored, listclean, listunknown
-    ):
+    ) -> istatus.Status:
         """build a status with respect to another context"""
         # Load earliest manifest first for caching reasons. More specifically,
         # if you have revisions 1000 and 1001, 1001 is probably stored as a
@@ -388,7 +391,7 @@ class basectx:
         listclean=False,
         listunknown=False,
         listsubrepos=False,
-    ):
+    ) -> istatus.Status:
         """return status of files between two nodes or node and working
         directory.
 
@@ -1905,7 +1908,9 @@ class workingctx(committablectx):
                 # Even if the wlock couldn't be grabbed, clear out the list.
                 self._repo.clearpostdsstatus()
 
-    def _dirstatestatus(self, match, ignored=False, clean=False, unknown=False):
+    def _dirstatestatus(
+        self, match, ignored=False, clean=False, unknown=False
+    ) -> istatus.Status:
         '''Gets the status from the dirstate -- internal use only.'''
         subrepos = []
         if b'.hgsub' in self:
@@ -2729,7 +2734,9 @@ class workingcommitctx(workingctx):
             repo, text, user, date, extra, changes
         )
 
-    def _dirstatestatus(self, match, ignored=False, clean=False, unknown=False):
+    def _dirstatestatus(
+        self, match, ignored=False, clean=False, unknown=False
+    ) -> istatus.Status:
         """Return matched files only in ``self._status``
 
         Uncommitted files appear "clean" via this context, even if
@@ -2924,7 +2931,7 @@ class memctx(committablectx):
         return man
 
     @propertycache
-    def _status(self):
+    def _status(self) -> istatus.Status:
         """Calculate exact status from ``files`` specified at construction"""
         man1 = self.p1().manifest()
         p2 = self._parents[1]
@@ -3089,7 +3096,7 @@ class metadataonlyctx(committablectx):
         return self._originalctx.manifest()
 
     @propertycache
-    def _status(self):
+    def _status(self) -> istatus.Status:
         """Calculate exact status from ``files`` specified in the ``origctx``
         and parents manifests.
         """
diff --git a/mercurial/interfaces/dirstate.py b/mercurial/interfaces/dirstate.py
--- a/mercurial/interfaces/dirstate.py
+++ b/mercurial/interfaces/dirstate.py
@@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
     # to avoid circular imports
     from .. import (
         match as matchmod,
-        scmutil,
         transaction as txnmod,
     )
 
+    from . import status as istatus
+
     # TODO: finish adding type hints
     AddParentChangeCallbackT = Callable[
         ["idirstate", Tuple[Any, Any], Tuple[Any, Any]], Any
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
     """The return type of dirstate.flagfunc()."""
 
     # TODO: verify and complete this- it came from a pytype *.pyi file
-    StatusReturnT = Tuple[Any, scmutil.status, Any]
+    StatusReturnT = Tuple[Any, istatus.Status, Any]
     """The return type of dirstate.status()."""
 
     # TODO: probably doesn't belong here.
diff --git a/mercurial/subrepo.py b/mercurial/subrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/subrepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/subrepo.py
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ from . import (
     util,
     vfs as vfsmod,
 )
+from .interfaces import (
+    status as istatus,
+)
 from .utils import (
     dateutil,
     hashutil,
@@ -332,7 +335,7 @@ class abstractsubrepo:
     def cat(self, match, fm, fntemplate, prefix, **opts):
         return 1
 
-    def status(self, rev2, **opts):
+    def status(self, rev2, **opts) -> istatus.Status:
         return scmutil.status([], [], [], [], [], [], [])
 
     def diff(self, ui, diffopts, node2, match, prefix, **opts):
@@ -614,7 +617,7 @@ class hgsubrepo(abstractsubrepo):
         )
 
     @annotatesubrepoerror
-    def status(self, rev2, **opts):
+    def status(self, rev2, **opts) -> istatus.Status:
         try:
             rev1 = self._state[1]
             ctx1 = self._repo[rev1]
@@ -1971,7 +1974,7 @@ class gitsubrepo(abstractsubrepo):
         return 0
 
     @annotatesubrepoerror
-    def status(self, rev2, **opts):
+    def status(self, rev2, **opts) -> istatus.Status:
         rev1 = self._state[1]
         if self._gitmissing() or not rev1:
             # if the repo is missing, return no results
diff --git a/mercurial/subrepoutil.py b/mercurial/subrepoutil.py
--- a/mercurial/subrepoutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/subrepoutil.py
@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
         context,
         localrepo,
         match as matchmod,
-        scmutil,
         subrepo,
         ui as uimod,
     )
 
+    from .interfaces import status as istatus
+
     # keeps pyflakes happy
     assert [
         context,
         localrepo,
         matchmod,
-        scmutil,
         subrepo,
         uimod,
     ]
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ def submerge(
 def precommit(
     ui: "uimod.ui",
     wctx: "context.workingcommitctx",
-    status: "scmutil.status",
+    status: "istatus.Status",
     match: "matchmod.basematcher",
     force: bool = False,
 ) -> Tuple[List[bytes], Set[bytes], Substate]: