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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 August 2010 22:09:41 James Westby wrote:
> (Note that uploading the same version as before with different contents
> isn't a problem with apt. Apt will do the right thing and get you the
> new version, but there may be other tools that break.)

While technically do-able, this is a nightmare scenario for humans if you 
can't tell what's in a file if the same version can have different contents.