newly-initialised distroseries not considered dirty on first publisher run

[Colin Watson]

Last year, some work was done on simplifying the process of creating new distroseries. I believe this was mainly for derived distributions, but it also had the effect of making Ubuntu's new-release-cycle process simpler. One of the changes to our process was the removal of the requirement to do careful-apt publisher runs after initialising the new distroseries in order to create initial Packages and Sources files:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewReleaseCycleProcess?action=diff&rev1=83&rev2=84

However, when I initialised quantal, I found that the publisher did not automatically create indexes under dists/ for it, and I had to run publish-distro.py -A manually, just like in the old days.

Looking through #launchpad-ops logs for 2011-10-13, it turns out that this didn't work when we initialised precise either. Maybe we can make this work properly for R!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

In case it helps, here's the log output from the publisher run that I believe should have created quantal indices but didn't.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I subscribed jtv since he did the work for this originally. I'm pretty sure I saw it working on DF at some point too, so it could just be a production config issue?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This definitely worked when we initialised utopic, and looking back through some IRC logs it appears to have worked for at least trusty and possibly saucy too. So, whatever happened, I think this is fixed now. We'll reopen if it happens again.