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Autogenerate ChangeLog as part of "make dist"

Even Rouault requested to merge rouault/libtiff:autogenerate_changelog into master

We use the AX_GENERATE_CHANGELOG macro from https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_generate_changelog.html so that ChangeLog is produced as part of "make dist"

Manually updating the ChangeLog file at each commit is an error-prone, and ancient pattern, that is no longer used in modern projects.

"make dist" will now generate in the .tar.gz/.zip an equivalently detailed changelog with the output of "git log --name-status".

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