Ubuntu
heartbeat package

Removal Request: Demote from main

Bug #1827416 reported by Bryce Harrington on 2019-05-02

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	heartbeat (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Bryce Harrington

Bug Description

heartbeat was updated to python3[0], but has become obsolescent and can
be removed from the archive.

Release: heartbeat should be removed from main in Eoan+. It can be moved
to universe.

Rationale: Heartbeat was a part of the linux-ha project, and could
either be used stand-alone ("haresources" mode), or as a part of the
Pacemaker cluster resource manager[1]. However, Pacemaker's focus moved
to use Corosync[2] and dependencies on heartbeat were dropped in the
packaging. There is no longer any reference to heartbeat by pacemaker
as corosync has completely replaced it today.

Reverse depends or reverse build depends on heartbeat, except for two
Suggests: ipvsadm and drbd-utils. ipvsadm allows it as an alternative
to keepalived. drbd-utils supports it as one of several different
optional integrations.

0: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/heartbeat/+bug/1735355
1: http://blog.clusterlabs.org/blog/2010/pacemaker-heartbeat-corosync-wtf
2: http://linux-ha.org/wiki/Site_news