Dropped email_tracked_sent_count column from automation action revisions

[cmraible]

closes https://linear.app/ghost/issue/NY-1463/drop-email-tracked-sent-count-column

Open rates now use total sent as their denominator, making the tracked-only aggregate redundant and potentially confusing — let's drop the column.

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Walkthrough

Removes the email_tracked_sent_count column from the automation action revisions schema and adds a migration to drop it from existing databases. Updates the expected database schema integrity hash and bumps the ghost-admin and ghost-core package versions to 6.54.0-rc.0.

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[cmraible]

Tested manually on MySQL and Sqlite. Did not test on staging because this is a simple drop column on a table that should have no more than 1000 rows.