Activation terminates a running workflow.

Hi,
i have a workflow package with mutliple Pages in it and a running workflow on this Workflow package. When i use the "Activate"-function in the siteadmin for one of the pages in the workflow package the workflow is terminated. Same for the "Deactivation"-function.
Is this intended or is this kind of a bug? For my usecase this is not acceptable.
An acceptable solution would be to remove the page from the workflow package. A better solution would be to disable this behaviour and just let the workflow as it is.
Is this possible, or is there a good reason why CQ5.5 behaves this way?
Greetings

Hi angerwin,
Once i saw issue with version in workflow step. Technically it should not affect I was just suspecting. Please file daycare and attach all the logs.
Thanks,
Sham

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