Fix path-resolution bug in changenotes.mts validate by using getChangenotes

[mario-campos]

isValidChangenoteFile receives a file name (no leading path) and then attempts to read that file, regardless of the CWD. If the user's CWD is not in unreleased-change-notes, then the command will likely fail to open the file.

Incidentally, for #4155, I've added getChangenotes, which consolidates some duplicative code between the assemble and validate commands. We can take advantage of that here in validate, and in so doing, fix the bug.

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[Copilot]

Copilot review overview

🟢 Approval recommended

The focused change correctly fixes working-directory-dependent path resolution without leaving unresolved usages.

Review effort: Balanced
Findings: None

What changed in this PR

Fixes changenote validation from arbitrary working directories by validating repository-rooted paths.

Changes:

• Uses getChangenotes() to resolve changenote paths.
• Removes the obsolete aggregate validator and its tests.

File	Description
pr-checks/​changenotes.mts	Validates changenotes using resolved paths.
pr-checks/​changelog/​validate.mts	Removes the unused aggregate validator.
pr-checks/​changelog/​validate.test.mts	Removes tests for the deleted helper.

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[mbg]

The changes look good, but one question about the approach you took.

[mbg]

Rather than replacing the call to isValidAllChangenoteFiles with this inline implementation that uses getChangenotes(), do you think it would be better to update the existing implementation of isValidAllChangenoteFiles to accept ChangenoteFile[] and pass it the result of getChangenotes() here? That way you could keep (most of) the unit tests. You would need to move the definition of ChangenoteFile somewhere that is accessible to both files.