What's zeitwerk trying to tell us with ".. is ignored because XXX is already defined"

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I am looking at a nasty issue with PaperTrail. We are redefining a class in app/models/paper_trail/version.rb that looks like

puts "I am loading"
module PaperTrail
  class Version < ActiveRecord::Base
    include PaperTrail::VersionConcern

with the specs and with rails zeitwerk:check we get the message

Zeitwerk@rails.main: file /Users/kireto/…/app/models/paper_trail/version.rb is ignored because PaperTrail::Version is already defined

The text “I am loading” is never printed.

Why is app/models/paper_trail/version.rb not loaded? It is in app/models, it is in the autoloaded and eager_load paths. Does zeitwerk look only at the first definition and ignores everything after that. Because there is a PaperTrail::Version in another gem that gets loaded first then app/models/paper_trail/version.rb is never read. Right? Then what will be the correct way to redefine a constant to load from our file?

Thanks.