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Cleanup of dynflags override in export renaming

Bartłomiej Cieślar requested to merge barci2/ghc-dev:export-rename-rm-dynflags-change into master

The deprecation warnings are normally emitted whenever the name's GRE is being looked up, which calls the GHC.Rename.Env.addUsedGRE function. We do not want those warnings to be emitted when renaming export lists, so they are artificially turned off by removing all warning categories from DynFlags at the beginning of GHC.Tc.Gen.Export.rnExports. This MR removes that dependency by unifying the function used for GRE lookup in lookup_ie to lookupGreAvailRn and disabling the call to addUsedGRE in said function (the warnings are also disabled in a call to lookupSubBndrOcc_helper in lookupChildrenExport), as per #17957 (this is also a prerequisite to !10283 (closed))

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