gh-143768: Replace a dangling interpreter symlink when creating a venv - #150985
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A dangling interpreter symlink in the target directory caused
venvto crash with--copiesand to silently leave the broken link in place with symlinks.symlink_or_copynow unlinks a dangling destination symlink first, matching how a stale regular file is already replaced on re-run.Supersedes #143770, which got stuck in a wedged change-detection state after a bad merge via the GitHub UI.