[ntuple] Fix remaining issues with deferred columns in RNTupleMerger #17810
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This Pull request:
fixes all remaining known cases of mishandling of deferred columns in the RNTupleMerger, most notably the inability of merging a file with a deferred column in the first source and mishandling of sources with a deferred column unaligned with cluster boundaries.
Several tests are added to cover those cases.
Optimizations left to do
Checklist: