feat: add summarization compactor

[sjrl]

Related Issues

• fixes https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack-private/issues/512

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File	Statements	Missing	Coverage	Coverage (new stmts)	Lines missing
haystack/components/generators/chat
utils.py					45
haystack/hooks/compaction
__init__.py
sliding_window.py
summarization.py					92, 328-331, 438, 462-463, 467-471, 475-476, 480-484
utils.py
haystack/token_counters
utils.py
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