[None][fix] Clarify explicit post-merge stage CI label

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Summary

• Clarified CI documentation for post-merge stage approval labels.
• Explicitly selected stages no longer require ci: post-merge.
• Broad wildcard selectors still require the approval label, including escaped or repeated-star variants.

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• Documentation-only change; wording is consistent with the described CI behavior.
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Clarifies when the ci: post-merge approval label is required for explicit and wildcard post-merge test selectors, including comma-separated and escaped or repeated-star variants.

Changes

Post-merge test guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Selector approval rules docs/source/developer-guide/ci-overview.md	Distinguishes explicit stage selections that do not require approval labels from wildcard selectors that do, while documenting equivalent selector variants and preserving existing behavior for other patterns.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#16777: Updates related post-merge selector and approval-label guidance.

Suggested reviewers: vallis-neria

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/source/developer-guide/ci-overview.md`:
- Around line 136-139: Update the approval-label reference in the CI overview
documentation to use the exact full name `ci: post-merge approved`, keeping the
surrounding selector behavior description unchanged.

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