Backups can completely age out of the Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

With a name like Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, one would think every scenario had been thought of which Oracle would prevent against right?  Well not so fast!  Read the article on MOS "(RA10) Bug 22378407 : BACKUPS WILL AGE OUT COMPLETELY IF ONE STOPS CREATING THEM" from note ID 2112880.1 which seems to be half process issue, and half bug since it doesn't prevent this from happening!