Bug#690036: unblock: rabbitmq-server/2.8.7-1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 12:04 +0100, Emile Joubert wrote:
> We would be grateful if you consider unblocking version 2.8.7.
> The differences between 2.8.4 and 2.8.7 only include bugfixes, as
> noted in the changelog: http://www.rabbitmq.com/changelog.html

 328 files changed, 14670 insertions(+), 11824 deletions(-)

That's an awful lot of bug fixes for a few revisions on a stable branch.
It's also not particularly reviewable.

Why was the changelog entry for 2.8.4-1 removed?

> The 2.8.x releases were made from a stable branch. The most important
> fixes are to High Availability mode of operation. All of the changes
> in question were made upstream. It would be very unfortunate if 2.8.4
> was accepted instead, because it is halfway down a stable branch of
> development.

"Halfway down a stable branch of development" sounds a little odd. Isn't
the point of a stable branch that it only receives bug fixes, rather
than new development?

Regards,

Adam