rabbitmq-server outdated

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS still comes with rabbitmq 3.6.10. Backports does not have newer versions either.

However, 3.6 is deprecated and not supported anymore since May 1st, 2018. There's no security updates.

See

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rabbitmq-users/kXkI-f3pgEw/UFowJIK4BQAJ
https://github.com/rabbitmq/chef-cookbook

Since Ubuntu 19.04 has rabbitmq 3.7 packages, it would possibly be a good idea, to put them in the backports for 18.04.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Hadmut,
in rare cases where security maintenance is unbearable without upgrading this is done by the security team. Otherwise as you suggested this would be a package for backports pocket, but that is mostly a community effort.

I think there is no objection to help on that backport, but it is unlikely that one will totally jump on it. I'll mark it wishlist to reflect that.

[Eric Desrochers (slashd)]

3.6 is EOL since 31 May 2018.
3.7 is EOL'ing in 31 March 2020

which only leave 3.8 as supported

For more details:
https://www.rabbitmq.com/versions.html

rabbitmq-server (3.8.2) depends on erlang (21.3) which is the minimum required which depends on elixir (1.6.6)

None of theses depends are found in Bionic at the moment:
erlang | 1:20.2.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2 | bionic/universe | all
elixir | 1.3.3-2 | bionic/universe | all

[Compatibility between Elixir and Erlang/OTP]
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/lib/elixir/pages/Compatibility%20and%20Deprecations.md

[RabbitMQ and Erlang/OTP Compatibility Matrix]
https://www.rabbitmq.com/which-erlang.html

[Eric Desrochers (slashd)]

Discussion has been moved here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bionic-backports/+bug/1864212

[Guilherme G. Piccoli (gpiccoli)]

Hi Eric, should this LP be marked as duplicate for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bionic-backports/+bug/1864212 ? Thanks!

[Eric Desrochers (slashd)]

@gpiccoli,

One is the bug itself and the other one is the backport request "paperwork".
I guess we could mark them as duplicate to kind of link them together.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

FYI, the Backports project restarted. Although we have yet to announce it formally, you can find the new process here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

I'm unsubscribing the backporters team from this bug since to me it seems there is nothing to do by us, but if and when somebody is going to follow through with those steps please do re-subscribe the team!