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jschoubben 6330abce5f 028 — two things want one port, and nothing says so until the machine
Found by fixing 027 and pushing again. The declaration is now accepted
and the database container still cannot start: the mesh's own store
holds 5432 on that machine, and the module publishes 5432.

Nothing catches it because the substrate is not a module. It arrives
from the bundle before there is a mesh to ask, so the control plane has
never heard of the store and does not know it holds a port. Resolution
can compare modules with each other and cannot compare one against what
the mesh is built on.

Nor does it compare modules with each other. A port is exclusive on a
machine in exactly the way a claim is, and the mesh has a mechanism for
that which ports do not use.

It has been met before: the end-to-end test that exercises a real
database publishes 5433 rather than 5432, inline, with nothing saying
why. That is how a constraint becomes folklore.

The open question is bigger than the bug. Whether a module should
publish to the machine at all decides how a consumer reaches it, and
changes what `serves` means.
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