Comment 1 for bug 918629

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

Lp is correct in this case. It is guarding against a man-in-the-middle security attack. If Lp permitted users published different packages with the same name, users cannot get security fixes, or worse, someone could tamper with the package.

You must change the version of the package you are uploaded so that archive subscribers will get the new, higher versioned, package.