The compiler is unable to select `PartialOrd` implementation to compare `&[u8]` and `&[u8;32]` if `bytes` crate is imported

I tried this code:

use bytes::Bytes;

fn main() {
    let hash = Vec::<u8>::new();
    assert!(hash.as_slice() < &[0u8; 32]);
}

playground link: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=b54926ee34df82189cedb9ef01de3afb

I expected to see this happen: The code should compile

Instead, this happened: Compilation fails:

error[E0277]: can't compare `[u8]` with `[u8; 32]`
 --> src/main.rs:7:29
  |
7 |     assert!(hash.as_slice() < &[0u8; 32]);
  |                             ^ no implementation for `[u8] < [u8; 32]` and `[u8] > [u8; 32]`
  |
  = help: the trait `PartialOrd<[u8; 32]>` is not implemented for `[u8]`, which is required by `&[u8]: PartialOrd<&[u8; 32]>`
  = help: the following other types implement trait `PartialOrd<Rhs>`:
            `&[u8]` implements `PartialOrd<BytesMut>`
            `&[u8]` implements `PartialOrd<bytes::Bytes>`
            `[u8]` implements `PartialOrd<BytesMut>`
            `[u8]` implements `PartialOrd<bytes::Bytes>`
  = note: required for `&[u8]` to implement `PartialOrd<&[u8; 32]>`

The code compiles after removing use bytes::Bytes;

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rustc --version --verbose:

❯ rustc --version --verbose
rustc 1.81.0 (eeb90cda1 2024-09-04)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: eeb90cda1969383f56a2637cbd3037bdf598841c
commit-date: 2024-09-04
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.81.0
LLVM version: 18.1.7

It also fails with:

• beta 1.82.0-beta.3 (2024-09-09 4976ae480e2b29cc46f4)
• nightly 1.83.0-nightly (2024-09-16 c52c23b6f44cd1971872)

Start with the playground reproduction in src/main.rs and confirm the comparison fails when bytes::Bytes is imported but succeeds without it. Compare the behavior on stable, beta, and nightly as reported; done means the example compiles with the import present and the relevant compiler tests cover the regression.