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RLM receives a callback and unassigns the partition for leader/follower task, If the delete option is enabled then remote log segment metadata is updated in RLMM by enabling the delete marker. RLMM will eventually delete these segments by using RemoteStorageManager. As the segments are deleted asynchronously, creation of a topic with the same name later may cause issues because of the existing metadata about the earlier generation of the topic. It was discussed in the community earlier for adding UUID to represent a topic along with the name as part of KIP-516. That enhancement will be useful to address the issue mentioned here. 

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