Series initialization might end up as a partially initialised series

[Raphaël Badin]

Series initialization uses the packagecopier which works in an atomic way, so it might deny the copy of all the sources because of a simple conflict with one source. This might lead to a partially initialised series which we currently have no way to recover from.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

This is part of a bigger problem where we have the choice of
a) a long transaction that allows us to atomically roll back in case of errors (and we know long transactions are bad)
b) many short transactions but a partially initialised series

In the case of (b) we have a lot of code that will break when a series is partially initialised. It needs to be tracked down and fixed to use a new boolean on the Distroseries table. For example, many places use IArchive.getPublishedSources() to see if the series has got packages in it.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Moving to low priority since the transaction times will probably be small for most ops.