>> This one also seems to be lacking consensus more than anything else.
>> What do we do about that?
>
> I'll re-read the thread in detail to see if I can break impasse.
When we last left it, I pointed out to you that 100% backwards
compatibility is impossible: we simply can't maintain recovery.conf as a
trigger file and also clean up the broken API. You had no response for
how to resolve that.
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