[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#818961: Freeze status, Heartbeat plans

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Patrick Matthäi 2016-12-21 <89f2fc7d-a3a0-a01f-8105-7f795b0d27fa at debian.org>
> We tried out many test cases, workarounds, debugging on this issue and
> the result was, that the v1 mode of heartbeat can not deal with the
> dependency system of systemd and will never support it.

Hmm, I don't get what the dependency system has to do with it, versus
a plain "heartbeat invoking systemctl via init scripts" breakage, or
something like that.

> I still think, this is the best solution (since only v1 mode is affected):
> "IMO the package should warn (debconf dialog prio high?) the user if he
> upgrades heartbeat and systemd+v1 config is in use."

That still requires someone to understand the problem and explain it
in the warning. Just saying "it might be broken but we don't know
which bits you need to check" won't work.

> Removing the whole heartbeat package would not be a good solution, since
> it is still required?

It doesn't have any reverse dependencies anymore. At the moment it's
the only HA package not in testing, so it isn't holding back any other
package. Effectively, it is already removed now (from testing).

Christoph