How to force Google Play to accept a new version of an app?

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Google Play

Hello! removed the requirement in the android manifest android.hardware.TELEPHONY for the application to be available on tablets. When trying to upload a new stable version of apk, an error is generated that it cannot save changes, because there are errors in the form. and an error is written on the page itself
This configuration cannot be published for the following reasons:
If the previous set of APKs used Android M permissions (SDK 23 and later), the new one should not have legacy permissions (SDK 22 and earlier) . This issue may occur when migrating from version 2 (SDK 23) to version 18 (SDK 21).
Version 17 is not supported in any device configuration. Version 18 will be installed instead of version 17.
It is possible to use multiple APKs on some devices. In such cases, a later version of the file is selected for installation.
The new version(18) has the status Stable version(Draft),
the old version is not deactivated. What to do?)