Backport 19.0 of "Fix infinite retry on detected language rename"

What does this MR do and why?

Original issue: Permanently failing sidekiq task due to renamin... (#602294 - closed)

When Gitaly returns a new canonical name for a language whose language_id already exists under a different ProgrammingLanguage name, repository language detection repeatedly failed on the unique language_id constraint and retried forever, stalling Sidekiq.

Includes the two supporting refactors (detected language objects and the extracted ProgrammingLanguageResolver) required for the fix to apply cleanly.

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