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Bug#881431: debian-policy: Clarify a version number is unique field



Hello,

On Sat, Nov 11 2017, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

> There is another reuse that you haven't considered here: reusing a
> version (or even, a lower version) after a package has been removed
> from the archive (and here I mean, remove from all of oldoldstable,
> oldstable, stable, testing, unstable, experimental releases).  At that
> point dak doesn't know of it anymore and allows everything.
>
> TTBOMK that happened in the past several times.
>
> Do you want to forbid such "reuse" as well?

I think so.  There was a thread on -devel recently about the dangers of
reuse in such cases: users with the old package installed are not able
to switch to the new package.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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