build: address pre-release validation failure

[alan-agius4]

Previously, the release process encountered an error due to ts-node's inability to transform packages/schematics/angular/utility/latest-versions.ts, resulting in the following error:

export const latestVersions: Record<string, string> & {
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'export'
    at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:73:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1274:20)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1320:27)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1414:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1197:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1013:12)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:202:29)
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:195:25)
    at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:336:24)
    at async checkSchematicsAngularLatestVersion (file:///usr/..../git/angular-cli/scripts/release-checks/dependency-ranges/latest-versions-check.mts:9:46) 

To resolve this issue, we now utilize the package.json directly to retrieve dependency versions.

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