Update Backpack refactoring authored by sheaf's avatar sheaf
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The `.bkp` file format is used internally in GHC for testing Backpack; it permits a more concise syntax in which different units are defined in a single file, as opposed to needing separate files and an associated `.cabal` file.
However, this file format is not specified or documented anywhere. Moreover, it doesn't support some important developer functionality such as `-ddump-tc-trace` (#20396).
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However, the .bkp framework:
- is not specified or documented anywhere,
- doesn't support some important developer functionality such as `-ddump-tc-trace` (#20396),
- doesn't report mistakes such as a mis-spelled unit name (#20487), causing a compiler crash which doesn't detail the source of the problem.
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