Heartbeat names conflict with another package on Ubuntu

[tsg]

The heartbeat name is taken on ubuntu and probably other distributions. This results in a bad experience while trying to install our heartbeat.

We've discussed some potential options:

• Rename our Heartbeat to something else (e.g. Upbeat or Uptimebeat)
• Reimplement the original heartbeat HA functionality in Heartbeat and supersede it (just kidding :))
• Rename the DEB and RPM files to something like elastic-heartbeat-....deb.

The last option currently seems the most appealing. We probably want to add the elastic- prefix to all beats, not only Heartbeat, to keep the packaging process consistent. Some potential issues that we need to investigate:

• This might affect the unified build process
• The dash might be problematic to use in the package names / file names
• We'd need to smoothly upgrade from one version of the other (i.e. use Replaces: on Debian, etc.)
• We should consider if we want the elastic-heartbeat name in all DEB/RPM names or only in the ones that we put in the repositories. Similarly, we could name the package elastic-heartbeat but keep the filename as heartbeat...deb.

We plan to figure this out by 6.0.

[exekias]

joining all different beats under the same project would fix the issue too. Just "beats" 🍡

[andrewkroh]

FYI: It looks like FreeBSD ports moved to "beats" partially due to the heartbeat name collision.

From: https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/beats/

The reason is to make the port more maintainable and also that the new heartbeat beat would
conflict with sysutils/heartbeat.

[tsg]

Closing in favor of #3765. I moved my comment there.