fix: pack backoff runs from the failure

#239 moved §5.7's attention window to `failed_at` and left §6.2's pack
ladder on `grabbed_at`. A torrent that stalls for weeks before ffprobe
condemns it at import has elapsed the whole ladder the moment it fails,
so the pack lane retried a source that had just failed — the one thing
the backoff exists to prevent.

The ladder now measures from the failure, the same anchor and the same
column §5.7 reads, with `grabbed_at` as the fallback for rows written
before the column existed. All three sites read
`max(coalesce(failed_at, grabbed_at))`, so the `last_failed_at` alias
holds what its name says — including the one the season deck feeds into
`reopens_at` and `pack_retry_at`, which was showing a grab time under a
name §5.7 had redefined.

DESIGN.md §6.2 states the anchor the way §5.7 states its own.

Tests cover a pack grabbed 35 days ago and failed 10 minutes ago on the
targeted lane, the RSS lane and the season deck.

`just ci` through the gate: 519/519 tests pass, web checks clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Miguel Palhas
2026-08-25 11:49:44 +01:00
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@@ -480,6 +480,22 @@ its own, the escape hatch is the season release deck, not a lane exception.
Targeted search backs off `1h → 6h → 1d → 3d`, capped at 7d, reset when the
title's metadata changes. It never gives up entirely, it goes quiet.
**The ladder runs from the failure, not the grab.** A failed season-pack grab
quiets the pack lane on that same curve, and the rung is measured from the
moment the grab entered `failed``grabs.failed_at`, the column §5.7's
attention window reads — not from when it was sent. The two are usually
minutes apart, but a torrent can stall on a dead swarm for five weeks before
`ffprobe` condemns it at import. Measured from the grab, the whole ladder has
already elapsed by the time the failure lands, so the lane retries the source
that just failed at once, which is the one thing the backoff exists to
prevent. The ladder's job is to stay off a source that has recently failed,
and "recently" can only mean recently failed.
One anchor covers both features. §5.7's window and this ladder ask the same
question of the same event and read the same column; a target still broken
keeps producing fresh failures, and each one both re-arms this backoff and
holds the target in the attention queue.
**Do not search before the release exists.** TMDB carries release dates; a
movie with no digital release date gets zero targeted searches. This is the
single largest source of wasted queries in Radarr and it is free to avoid.