make trait-aliases work across crates #57502
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This is rebase of a small part of @alexreg's PR #55994. It focuses just on the changes that integrate trait aliases properly into crate metadata, excluding the stylistic edits and the trait objects.
The stylistic edits I also rebased and can open a separate PR.
The trait object stuff I found challenging and decided it basically needed to be reimplemented. For now I've excluded it.
Since this is really @alexreg's work (I really just rebased) I am going to make it r=me once it is working.
Fixes #56488.
Fixes #57023.