Wander Hillen authored Sep 12, 2020 and Ben Gamari committed Sep 24, 2020

Data.OldList exports a monomorphized singleton function but
it is not re-exported by Data.List. Adding the export to
Data.List causes a conflict with a 14-year old function of the
same name and type by SPJ in GHC.Utils.Misc. We can't just remove
this function because that leads to a problems when building
GHC with a stage0 compiler that does not have singleton in
Data.List yet. We also can't hide the function in GHC.Utils.Misc
since it is not possible to hide a function from a module if the
module does not export the function. To work around this, all
places where the Utils.Misc singleton was used now use a qualified
version like Utils.singleton and in GHC.Utils.Misc we are very
specific about which version we export.

(cherry picked from commit e195dae6)