If a package is *removed* from a suite, the suite branch should
probably be renamed on the server side.

Otherwise if a different package with the same name is introduced, the
histories will intermingle.

Ian.

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload"):

I have filed #1073844 for this.

I think we can deploy tag2upload and advertise it for early adopters
with this bug unfixed, but we would probably want to make sure it's
sorted out before advertising it for general use.

Compared to dgit (which is already affected by this problem)
tag2upload has a larger risk of accidental history mingling because it
must make more use of pseudomerges, and it will have a wider userbase
who by design are less familiar with how all this stuff works.[1]

Ian.

[1] FTR, making it possible to upload without having to understand
Debian source packages is one of my goals.  The source packages should
be Done Right automatically behind the scenes.