externals names two readings of a 404 — withdrawn, or access lost — and those are
the two a locked document can have. Adoption by name has a third: a document that
was never there under that name. Found in use, where a missing s reported the
ambiguity instead of the typo.
The tool was reporting an ambiguity it had the means to resolve: the by-name form
knows the repository, so on a 404 it now lists the published surface and says which
names exist. It claims that only when the listing succeeds — if listing fails too,
the repository is unreachable and the original ambiguity is the honest answer,
which is the same discipline as recording public and not-public rather than
private.
Not filed as a gap against externals. The third reading cannot occur where that
document is speaking, which is check against a lock; it exists only at adoption,
which is ours.
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