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Matthew Pickering authored
This commit modifies interface files so that *only* direct information
about modules and packages is stored in the interface file.

* Only direct module and direct package dependencies are stored in the
interface files.
* Trusted packages are now stored separately as they need to be checked
  transitively.
* hs-boot files below the compiled module in the home module are stored
  so that eps_is_boot can be calculated in one-shot mode without loading
  all interface files in the home package.
* The transitive closure of signatures is stored separately

This is important for two reasons

* Less recompilation is needed, as motivated by #16885, a lot of
redundant compilation was triggered when adding new imports deep in the
module tree as all the parent interface files had to be redundantly
updated.
* Checking an interface file is cheaper because you don't have to
perform a transitive traversal to check the dependencies are up-to-date.

In the code, places where we would have used the transitive closure, we
instead compute the necessary transitive closure. The closure is not
computed very often, was already happening in checkDependencies, and
was already happening in getLinkDeps.

Fixes #16885

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