Why do we need two different formats of WIF (wallet import format)?

Why do we need two different formats of WIF (wallet import format)?

I know that a public key can be compressed. However, a public key and its compressed one have the same private key. Then why do we need two different Wallet import formats for each compressed and uncompressed one?

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