[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#576511: Info received (Bug#576511: drbd8-utils: Ships with violent default actions)

[Philipp Hug]

> In fact, if you had been listening to me from day one, you'd realize
> that I'm not even asking you to actually fix this problem.
> I'm merely asking you to make the users who aren't using your personally
> preferred use case, but are nevertheless using an apparently valid and
> supported use case, aware that these otherwise undocumented defaults are
> going to be causing them data loss.

As I said before, please go ahead and submit a possible solution (e.g. patch)
If you can live with a disclaimer at the top of /etc/drbd.conf: like
## WARNING
##
## Please review the defaults in /etc/drbd.d/global_common.conf,
## especially the error handlers, as they reboot the machine in case
of drbd failure,
## before enabling any drbd resources.
##

that would be perfectly fine to me.

> In retrospect, all this is really ridiculous. I've made every good-faith
> effort to be constructive in this bug report, and in turn you've just thrown
> condescending platitudes at me in an apparent effort to avoid doing anything

I had to use google translate to figure out what you're saying..
That was for sure not my intention. I was just worried, that changing
the default makes things worse. And I assumed that's what you wanted.
As I said before, I'm fine changing comments in the configs to warn users.

> about this in wheezy (otherwise, what's the point of using a non-RC
> severity?). I suppose you can continue to do so, but that will simply force
> me to request that this package is removed from wheezy elsewhere, given that
> it's unfit for release both because of a software problem and because of a
> human problem.

Well, yes, IMO, this is a wishlist bug, that's how I set the severity
initially, because changing the defaults could make it worse and needs
further discussion.
wishlist
    for any feature request, and also for any bugs that are very
difficult to fix due to major design considerations.

So, please answer me if adding the comment is an acceptable solution
for you and I'll upload a new version.

Thanks,
Philipp