SI-9074 Fix generic substitution with package objects, overloading #4396
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Takes a leaf out of dotty's book [1] and makes
asSeenFrom
transparently change the prefix from the package class to the
package object when needed.
This fixes generic subsitution during overload resolution, as
reported in SI-9074.
This subsumes the former fix for SI-6225, which is removed here.
Resubmission of #4254
[1] scala/scala3#282