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Refactor package/dependency code to use consistent terminology

Warren Gifford requested to merge olafurpg/packages-terminology into main

Created by: olafurpg

Towards #37990 (closed).

This PR is a pure refactoring. There are no functional differences.

  • a "package" refers to an npm/maven/go package/artifact/module
  • a "dependency" refers to the dependency relationship between two packages
  • distinguish whether a package has a version or not. Previously, we silently used the empty string for versions when it was missing. The distinction is important because we only need a package without versions to create a Sourcegraph repo. The version is needed only when cloning/fetching that repository.

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