tests and verified that the bug is fixed, in all the cases I identified

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@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ as part of its check of numcopies, and keep it locked
while it's asking B to drop it. Then when B tells A to drop it,
it'll be locked and that'll fail (and vice-versa).
> Done, and verified the fix works in this situation.
# the bug part 2
<pre>
@ -116,6 +118,8 @@ Note that this is analgous to the fix above; in both cases
the change is from checking if content is in a location, to locking it in
that location while performing a drop from another location.
> Done, and verified the fix works in this situation.
# the bug part 3 (where it gets really nasty)
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@ -198,6 +202,9 @@ never entirely lost.
Dipping below desired numcopies in an unusual race condition, and then
doing extra work later to recover may be good enough.
> Implemented, and I've now verified this solves the case above.
> Indeed, neither drop succeeds, because no copy can be locked.
### to drop from local repo
When dropping an object from the local repo, lock it for drop,