Revert "[package_config] Remove support for .packages files. (#2034)"

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This reverts commit dce6155.

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Temporarily revert PR #2034 to unblock rolling package:unified_analytics into the Dart SDK.

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Package publishing

Package	Version	Status	Publish tag (post-merge)
package:bazel_worker	1.1.3	already published at pub.dev
package:benchmark_harness	2.3.1	already published at pub.dev
package:boolean_selector	2.1.2	already published at pub.dev
package:browser_launcher	1.1.3	already published at pub.dev
package:cli_config	0.2.1-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:cli_util	0.4.2	already published at pub.dev
package:clock	1.1.2	already published at pub.dev
package:code_builder	4.10.1	already published at pub.dev
package:coverage	1.12.0-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:csslib	1.0.2	already published at pub.dev
package:extension_discovery	2.1.0	already published at pub.dev
package:file	7.0.2-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:file_testing	3.1.0-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:glob	2.1.3	already published at pub.dev
package:graphs	2.3.3-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:html	0.15.5+1	ready to publish	html-v0.15.5+1
package:io	1.1.0-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:json_rpc_2	3.0.3	already published at pub.dev
package:markdown	7.3.1-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:mime	2.0.0	already published at pub.dev
package:oauth2	2.0.4-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:package_config	2.3.0-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:pool	1.5.2-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:pub_semver	2.2.0	already published at pub.dev
package:pubspec_parse	1.5.0	already published at pub.dev
package:source_map_stack_trace	2.1.3-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:source_maps	0.10.14-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:source_span	1.10.1	already published at pub.dev
package:sse	4.1.7	already published at pub.dev
package:stack_trace	1.12.1	already published at pub.dev
package:stream_channel	2.1.4	already published at pub.dev
package:stream_transform	2.1.2-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:string_scanner	1.4.1	already published at pub.dev
package:term_glyph	1.2.3-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:test_reflective_loader	0.2.3	already published at pub.dev
package:timing	1.0.2	already published at pub.dev
package:unified_analytics	7.0.2	already published at pub.dev
package:watcher	1.1.1	already published at pub.dev
package:yaml	3.1.3	already published at pub.dev
package:yaml_edit	2.2.2	already published at pub.dev

Documentation at https://github.com/dart-lang/ecosystem/wiki/Publishing-automation.

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Package	Change	Current Version	New Version	Needed Version	Looking good?
package_config	None	2.2.0	2.3.0-wip	2.2.0	✔️

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pkgs/package_config/lib/src/package_config.dart	💚 92 % ⬆️ 12 %
pkgs/package_config/lib/src/package_config_impl.dart	💚 80 %
pkgs/package_config/lib/src/package_config_io.dart	💚 60 % ⬆️ 25 %
pkgs/package_config/lib/src/package_config_json.dart	💔 74 % ⬇️ 8 %
pkgs/package_config/lib/src/packages_file.dart	💚 60 %
pkgs/package_config/lib/src/util.dart	💔 65 % ⬇️ 1 %

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pkgs/bazel_worker/benchmark/benchmark.dart
pkgs/bazel_worker/example/client.dart
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pkgs/boolean_selector/example/example.dart
pkgs/clock/lib/clock.dart
pkgs/clock/lib/src/clock.dart
pkgs/clock/lib/src/default.dart
pkgs/clock/lib/src/stopwatch.dart
pkgs/clock/lib/src/utils.dart
pkgs/clock/test/clock_test.dart
pkgs/clock/test/default_test.dart
pkgs/clock/test/stopwatch_test.dart
pkgs/clock/test/utils.dart
pkgs/coverage/lib/src/coverage_options.dart
pkgs/coverage/test/collect_coverage_config_test.dart
pkgs/coverage/test/config_file_locator_test.dart
pkgs/html/example/main.dart
pkgs/html/lib/dom.dart
pkgs/html/lib/dom_parsing.dart
pkgs/html/lib/html_escape.dart
pkgs/html/lib/parser.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/constants.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/encoding_parser.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/html_input_stream.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/list_proxy.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/query_selector.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/token.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/tokenizer.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/treebuilder.dart
pkgs/html/lib/src/utils.dart
pkgs/html/test/dom_test.dart
pkgs/html/test/parser_feature_test.dart
pkgs/html/test/parser_test.dart
pkgs/html/test/query_selector_test.dart
pkgs/html/test/selectors/level1_baseline_test.dart
pkgs/html/test/selectors/level1_lib.dart
pkgs/html/test/selectors/selectors.dart
pkgs/html/test/support.dart
pkgs/html/test/tokenizer_test.dart
pkgs/pubspec_parse/test/git_uri_test.dart
pkgs/stack_trace/example/example.dart
pkgs/watcher/test/custom_watcher_factory_test.dart
pkgs/yaml_edit/example/example.dart