pending cover state behaviour fix #9792

Job	Run time
Preparing	5s
DB Init build (amd64, treehouses/node:3.18)	25s
DB Init build (arm, treehouses/node-tags:arm-3.18)	32s
DB Init build (arm64, treehouses/node-tags:arm64-3.18)	31s
Manifest build	10s
	1m 43s

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