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Module re-exports at the package level

For various package reorganization purposes, especially for possibly turning base into a shim package that re-exports some modules from more specialized packages, good support for module re-exports would be nice.

I wrote up a design spec at ModuleReexports; this bug is to track the progress.

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Version 7.6.3
Type FeatureRequest
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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