Cleanup array and conversion primops (#19026)
(Also progress towards #11953, #17377, #17375)
Fixes #19099 though in fairness also caused #19099.
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Out-of-band dependency PRs:
- https://github.com/simonmar/alex/pull/166, released in Alex 3.2.6
- ci-images!59 (merged)
Submodule PRs:
- https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/7205
- ghc/packages/array!7
- https://github.com/kolmodin/binary/pull/178
- https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/pull/332
- https://github.com/haskell/containers/pull/760
- https://github.com/haskell/text/pull/305
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