[GHC] #14030: Implement the "Derive Lift instances for data types in template-haskell" proposal

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#14030: Implement the "Derive Lift instances for data types in template-haskell"
proposal
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           Reporter:  RyanGlScott    |             Owner:  (none)
               Type:  task           |            Status:  new
           Priority:  normal         |         Milestone:  8.4.1
          Component:  Template       |           Version:  8.3
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 Back in September 2015, I
 [https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2015-September/026117.html
 proposed] using the `DeriveLift` extension to, well, derive `Lift`
 instance for data types in the `template-haskell` library. The proposal
 was well received, but I was unable to implement it at the time due to
 `DeriveLift`'s newness (having only been introduced in GHC 8.0). Now that
 GHC 8.0 is the oldest version of GHC that we support bootstrapping with,
 this is no longer an obstacle.

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