autopkgtest: Save pending.json after every test request

We just had the autopkgtest queues DoSed because britney was crashing
after requesting each reverse dependency for a perl upload, but before
it had written pending.json out so it knew what not to request again.
This was 25,000 requests per arch...

Let's write pending.json straight after sending each request, so that
the next run - even after a crash - won't re-request the same things
again.

britney2/policies/autopkgtest.py

@@ -143,6 +143,13 @@ class AutopkgtestPolicy(BasePolicy):
         else:
             raise RuntimeError('Unknown ADT_AMQP schema %s' % amqp_url.split(':', 1)[0])
 
+    def save_pending_json(self):
+        # update the pending tests on-disk cache
+        self.log('Updating pending requested tests in %s' % self.pending_tests_file)
+        with open(self.pending_tests_file + '.new', 'w') as f:
+            json.dump(self.pending_tests, f, indent=2)
+        os.rename(self.pending_tests_file + '.new', self.pending_tests_file)
+
     def save_state(self, britney):
         super().save_state(britney)
 
@@ -153,11 +160,7 @@ class AutopkgtestPolicy(BasePolicy):
                 json.dump(self.test_results, f, indent=2)
             os.rename(self.results_cache_file + '.new', self.results_cache_file)
 
-        # update the pending tests on-disk cache
-        self.log('Updating pending requested tests in %s' % self.pending_tests_file)
-        with open(self.pending_tests_file + '.new', 'w') as f:
-            json.dump(self.pending_tests, f, indent=2)
-        os.rename(self.pending_tests_file + '.new', self.pending_tests_file)
+        self.save_pending_json()
 
     def apply_policy_impl(self, tests_info, suite, source_name, source_data_tdist, source_data_srcdist, excuse):
         # skip/delay autopkgtests until package is built
@@ -652,6 +655,8 @@ class AutopkgtestPolicy(BasePolicy):
             arch_list.append(arch)
             arch_list.sort()
             self.send_test_request(src, arch, trigger, huge=huge)
+            # save pending.json right away, so that we don't re-request if britney crashes
+            self.save_pending_json()
 
     def check_ever_passed(self, src, arch):
         '''Check if tests for src ever passed on arch'''