[release/v1.6.x] Recover from drifted Ready/Released status conditions - #1582
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When a post-action status condition patch failed for a HelmRelease that was just installed or upgraded (e.g. due to version conflicts), but history was successfully persisted, a HelmRelease could be stranded with `Ready=Unknown` while actually being completely installed in the cluster. Subsequent reconciliations of the HelmRelease would not correct that drift as the pre-existing correction mechanism required a `Released` status condition to exist. However, since that would've been created in the same patch as the missing `Ready` update, that would always fail. This fix extends the existing correction mechanism to allow for a missing `Released` status condition, in which case it will resort to `status.lastAttemptedReleaseAction` or `status.history` to determine the desired state for `Ready` and `Released`. Signed-off-by: Peter Bücker <peter.buecker@form3.tech> Assisted-by: cursor/grok-4.6 (cherry picked from commit 49996c7)
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release/v1.6.x, triggered by a label in #1580.