When merge fuses two sources' copies, the loser's id leaves the calendar, and it may already hold a reader's ticks from a day it was published alone. Until now that needed a hand-edited RETIRED_IDS entry per fusion.
The survivor now lists what it absorbed in an optional mergedIds field. When a feed arrives the client turns those into carry-forward pairs, skipping any id the feed still publishes, and an import takes the same table. Optional, so an older cached feed still validates and an older bundle drops it unread. RETIRED_IDS stays for parser changes, whose old ids no feed will name again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
