chore(tests): drop tests/__init__.py so build_tests cannot depend on import order

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What this changes

One deleted file: tests/__init__.py.

Correction to the first version of this description

The first version of this description said the flat-layout package at the
repository root SHADOWED the installed wheel in this repository, and that the
suite tested the working tree. THAT IS WRONG FOR THIS REPOSITORY, and it was
measured wrong by the author, not by a reviewer's guess. Reviewer-c measured the
base and found the suite green; this lane then re-ran the same instrument and got
the same result. The correction is to the description. The code change is
unchanged and still worth merging, for the smaller reason below.

Why, corrected

The tests directory was a package. Under pytest's default prepend import mode
that puts the repository root back on sys.path. On this repository the root IS
put back, and nothing resolves through it:
tests/e2e/test_hivescope_client_db_e2e.py sorts first, imports the package from
site-packages before any other module asks for it, and sys.modules then wins
every later lookup.

So the deletion does not remove a shadow here. It converts an ORDERING guarantee
into a STRUCTURAL one: today the suite imports the wheel because of collection
order, and after this change the root is never on sys.path at all.

That is worth having, and not only as tidiness. The ordering guarantee fails in
the exact case build_tests exists to catch. When the WHEEL is broken, the
pre-empting import is the one that raises, the package never lands in
sys.modules, and every module collected after it falls back to sys.path. With
the root present, one file reports the broken wheel and the rest can silently
read the working tree; with the root gone, every file reports it. Measured on
this repository: under a poisoned wheel the base reports 1 collection error and
the head reports 2.

How it was measured, corrected

The author's original probe was one cell asserting "site-packages" in pkg.__file__. It reports where ONE cell's first import landed and cannot carry
this claim. The instrument that decides is the prescribed control, run in both
directions in a venv holding the wheel this repository builds, installed
non-editable, on Python 3.11:

• SOURCE-POISON, a raise in the repository-root copy, suite required to stay
  GREEN. Base 50e952b with tests/__init__.py present: 68 passed, 3 skipped,
  zero marker hits. The source tree is never imported. The head: the same.
• WHEEL-POISON, a raise in the installed copy, suite required to go RED. The
  base ALREADY reds, which is the same finding from the other side.

Node ids are identical across the change, 69 each, and the baseline counts are
identical, so the deletion costs nothing.

The shape this description originally claimed IS present in sibling repositories,
and there source-poison reds the base. This repository is the one member of the
batch where it does not, and the sweep's row for it has been corrected in the same
words as this description:
knowledge/wiki/audits/gate-ledger/t6298-org-sweep-tests-init-measured.md.

The option not taken

pytest_args: --import-mode=importlib also works, and was rejected. It is per
workflow: every caller must carry it, and this repository has more than one
workflow that runs pytest. Deleting the file fixes them all at once and the next
caller cannot forget it.

This repository has NO tests/e2e/__init__.py. The first version of this
description said it had one and that the file was left in place; that sentence
was wrong and is removed.

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