* For types encountered during deserialization, search for a classifier,
not necessarily a class, across module dependencies (i.e. accept type
aliases, returned when actual type alias discriminates an expect
class).
* When the referenced type is a type alias, expand it, so that when
the descriptor is compared to the expansion in other places,
they match.
* Also, when resolving an abbreviation, don't expand the type aliases,
as there are assumptions in the code base that an abbreviation is a
type alias.
Sergey Igushkin
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